Think about the phrases that we throw around so easily, How “How are you?” and “I love you”, get tossed around so easily.
Now think about a Mute, who has no ability to make/create
words. How noble he must be with his actions. How he uses what he does have (Body, hands, feet, arms, etc...) to express how he feels about a certain thing. If he would get mad, he will look like he's mad, if he is full of joy you'll be able to tell, and so forth, just like a small child. However why do we who have the ability to speak say such things? To realize that the only reason we are saying these things is cause we are selfish and at times more than ever we are just seeking attention from someone who doesn't really matter compared to God, who BY THE WAY is already giving you all the attention you could ever want. It's just that we are so used to HEARING and SEEING how certain situations around us work out that we forget that God wants a fellowship with us, that is all he wants with us, if not he wouldn't have tried to get us back after we fell off. He would have just given up that very moment that they bite the apple. A good example of this is Elijah the Prophet, real quick just read this:
1 Kings 19:11-13
11So He said, "go forth and stand on the mountain before the Lord." And behold, the Lord was passing by! And a great and strong wind was rending the mountains and breaking in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.12After the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of a gentle blowing. 13When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. And behold, a voice came to him and said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
A freaking tornado, an earthquake, and a volcano eruption came. And Elijah was looking at those things looking for God. Yet he came in such a way that allowed us to know it was Him, he talked to us like how people talk to each other. Face TO FACE.
Fellowship - [n]; community through communication
Don't we do that too though? While we are out having a quiet prayer in the field, and suddenly you look next to you and there is a pile of ants and we say to ourselves, "Oh look a pile of ants. Maybe if I see what they are doing, maybe God will use them and have them line up in a way where they will make a message and God will answer my prayers and give me a sense of direction". Um... What? Who does that, ya know? I'm pretty sure that God would rather talk to you face to face than through a pile of ants. Remember that story that God talked through a donkey? (Read Numbers 22; Highly recommended)
Numbers 22 - Balaam was had been so blind by what God was trying to say FACE TO FACE that God used a donkey, who knows maybe as a last resort before His angel killed him, to get through to Him. Like Elijah they were not looking for God, they were looking for an ANSWER. I'm not offending God's ways or any kind of possibility or miracles that Happen through God, I am getting after how we try to manipulate God to give us an answer, we try to do all these stupid things to make God give us an answer when in reality that is either selfish or impatient of you. Because you want your answer NOW, you want your miracle NOW, and because your tired of all the trials and temptations and the pain and the loneliness and the suffering you want your answer now, and you'll do anything to get your answer, you'll fast, go to church, go to your mentor, pastor, etc. Yet you will not go to God? The one with all the answers? Oh wait but you want God for His blessings (Answers) not for Him.
It's like that one friend that has a Ferris wheel in his backyard. Your only his friend cause he has a FREAKING ferris wheel in his backyard, you don't care about him. You'll ask about how he is doing, but you won't really care; you'll ask how the family is, but you don't really care; you'll bring him gifts, but they aren't meaningful to you. All you want to do is RIDE that ferris wheel and that is it. And to find out that the only reason that guy had a ferris wheel in his backyard was because he simply wanted fellowship with people who wanted to talk to him.
Fellowship - [n]; community through communication
Don't we do that too though? While we are out having a quiet prayer in the field, and suddenly you look next to you and there is a pile of ants and we say to ourselves, "Oh look a pile of ants. Maybe if I see what they are doing, maybe God will use them and have them line up in a way where they will make a message and God will answer my prayers and give me a sense of direction". Um... What? Who does that, ya know? I'm pretty sure that God would rather talk to you face to face than through a pile of ants. Remember that story that God talked through a donkey? (Read Numbers 22; Highly recommended)
Numbers 22 - Balaam was had been so blind by what God was trying to say FACE TO FACE that God used a donkey, who knows maybe as a last resort before His angel killed him, to get through to Him. Like Elijah they were not looking for God, they were looking for an ANSWER. I'm not offending God's ways or any kind of possibility or miracles that Happen through God, I am getting after how we try to manipulate God to give us an answer, we try to do all these stupid things to make God give us an answer when in reality that is either selfish or impatient of you. Because you want your answer NOW, you want your miracle NOW, and because your tired of all the trials and temptations and the pain and the loneliness and the suffering you want your answer now, and you'll do anything to get your answer, you'll fast, go to church, go to your mentor, pastor, etc. Yet you will not go to God? The one with all the answers? Oh wait but you want God for His blessings (Answers) not for Him.
It's like that one friend that has a Ferris wheel in his backyard. Your only his friend cause he has a FREAKING ferris wheel in his backyard, you don't care about him. You'll ask about how he is doing, but you won't really care; you'll ask how the family is, but you don't really care; you'll bring him gifts, but they aren't meaningful to you. All you want to do is RIDE that ferris wheel and that is it. And to find out that the only reason that guy had a ferris wheel in his backyard was because he simply wanted fellowship with people who wanted to talk to him.
Micah 6:6-8
6With what shall i come to the Lord And bow myself before the God on high? Shall I come to HIm with burnt offerings, With yearling calves? 7Does the Lord take delight in thousands of rams, In ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I present my firstborn for my rebellious acts, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 8He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?
