Our relationship with God is more than just a relationship of a lesser people worshipping their deity.
It is MUCH more than that.
It is a love story in which our creator so desperately loves us that He pursues us. It is one in which He pursues us so desperately, that He came to earth and dies for each of our sins. It is one in which a marriage covenant is used to describe our relationship with Jesus as the bridegroom and we as the bride.
Just like Jewish marriage traditions, Jesus has left to prepare a place for us. We don't know when He will return. Fact is, He doesn't either. Jesus won't return until the Father, Abba, says it is time.
In the meantime, we, as the bride, are to be preparing for our grooms return. We are to be keeping ourselves pure and not committing adultery. However, that is were we all fall short. We are all committing adultery in some fashion - spiritual adultery. The thing is, we don't even realize it. We worship our money, houses, cars, jobs, sports, vacations, cars, family, things in general over our relationship with God.
Many times the churches we attend reflect our lack of focus on God. They tend to be more interested in providing a nice building, a service that has outstanding music and show. Things they feel people want to help draw them in. The church focuses more on pulling more people in than on helping the poor, missions, the sick, the elderly, the least of these that Jesus calls out in Matthew 25. We have become more "in love" with the experience of church than in our actual relationship with God.
I often wonder how many Christian's have accepted Christ more out of fear of going to hell vs. having an actual love of Jesus himself. The difference between the two could be why people in the world don't see a need for God. Do we truely radiate the love of Jesus in ways that make the world stand up and take notice or is Jesus more of an insurance policy?
How different the world could be if Christian's would reflect Jesus vs. being the judgemental hypocrites we have become known to be.
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