Down the rabbit hole with God
Expensive Buddies,
Have you had a “rabbit hole” expertise recently? That is when you find a entire new planet by incident. Like Alice, in “Lewis Carroll’s “Wonderland,” you tumble into anything you considered you knew but find that you hardly ever thoroughly appreciated its genuine mother nature. That took place to me final 7 days.
I was coming residence from Yale New Haven Hospital on Route 95. I was hungry. As I approached the exit for Westbrook, I saw the signal promotion a Subway restaurant. I hardly ever seen it right before. I got off the highway and in advance of lengthy I discovered myself in a wonderful village dotted with historic properties and quaint outlets.
It was a complete new environment. I imagined I knew Westbrook but I did not really know it at all. As I received back on the freeway a number of miles down the highway, I recognized that I did not genuinely know a lot about any of these shoreline towns. They ended up all just names to me. They experienced become synonymous with the exit signs on the freeway.
It struck me that the identical is accurate for quite a few persons when it will come to God. Every person has heard of God. Not absolutely everyone is aware Him. To lots of persons, God is an strategy. He is characterized as an outdated dude with a long white beard sitting on a throne in heaven. He is a mythological figure. Their effect of him was formed when they were being young children.
Yet, God is so substantially extra than that. In the Scriptures he has a hundred names that describe his innumerable attributes, and the pictures that they convey to head. The most endearing is “Abba, father” but the most telling is the name he shared with Moses prolonged ago. When Moses asked him, God claimed his title was, “I am.”
To place it really merely, God was telling Moses that he was real and far more than we can at any time think about. No solitary indication or image can do him justice. He is the essence of all that is superior and attractive, stuffed with grace and forgiveness, overflowing with electric power and glory, righteous and nevertheless, loving beyond measure.
God is a close friend, our protector, the righteous Lord of our life, our savior, guide and our helper. Of course, God is all that and a lot more. Once you meet him you will hardly ever be the similar for he changes you from the inside out and fills you with his joy, peace and a like that will not enable you go.
If you haven’t seasoned the fullness of God, then come across an exit and get off the fast keep track of you are driving on. Get down on your knees and speak to him, get time to go to a worship provider and honor him, and start to explore the untold blessings he has for you. Ahead of extended your daily life will develop into a religious “wonder” land.
God Bless. See you in Church. Cal.
The Rev. Cal Lord is the pastor of Central Baptist Church of Westerly. Attain him at [email protected].