It's All About The Relationship

Isaiah 48:18 “If only you had paid attention to my commands. Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.” ~CSB

Let’s say you know someone, but you haven’t seen or spoken to them in about twenty years. Many things factor into this long absence. Things like people changing. Meaning the person we knew twenty years ago is not the same person today. This person calls and asks for a large sum of money or maybe they come into town and ask to stay at your house. In your mind you may feel, ‘I may know you, but I really DON’T know you.’ In reality your relationship with each other is not strong because it has been nonexistent for 20 years.

This is how our relationship with God is. We say we know God, but because we put Him on the ‘shelf’, we do not have a relationship with Him. So when we ask God for His blessing in miracles and power, we find that there is a delay in Him answering our prayers the way we like. It’s not because God chooses not to bless us. He is not a man where He will hold a grudge. It is because His blessings require instruction and work on our part.

It is this instruction that can only be found in His Word. Some of us have not made it a habit of getting into God’s Word like we should. This good habit is the building of a relationship with God. In order for Him to allow us His power, we must understand the instructions that come from the endurance through our trials. It is this endurance that gives us the strength to receive, maintain and distribute the blessings from God.

Take God off the shelf and build that strong relationship. No matter what’s going on in this world, God should be first. Doesn’t matter how bad our situations are around us, it is God’s peace that allows us to maintain His gift of joy. With this joy we always know that God is bigger than our biggest problem.  When we know this, our peace will be, "...like a river, and our righteousness like the waves of the sea."

May God bless and keep you covered in His protection as you journey in Jesus name.

Amen