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Psalm 46:1 says, “God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.”
Know this – the presence of that trial is not an indicator of God’s absence.
He is with you.
God is with you in all of it.
How should that change us? To understand the revelation that God is in fact, omnipresent?!
Genesis tells us the story of God’s delight in spending time with man walking together in the garden in the cool of the afternoon.
We were in fact created for nearness, for relationship.
God wants you to know that He is near to you today.
He is not a “far away” God.
Though even the thought of heaven and it’s distance from our broken world seems immense, our God – our omnipresent God, has the ability and desire to “be with” us in any and every season and moment of our lives.
Even though we may push Him away at times, He lingers, He stays with us without forcing Himself upon us.
God is so gracious in how he relates to us, isn’t he?
He wants to be even nearer to you than you know.
He says, “you are as close to me as you want to be because I always want to be close to you.”
In 1 Kings 19, God speaks to Elijah in a “whisper.”
Why does God so often speak to us in that “still small voice?’
Well, simply put when someone speaks in a whisper, you have to get very “close” to hear.
In fact, you have to nearly put your mouth in someone’s ear for them to hear the whisper.
We lean toward a whisper, and that’s what God wants.
So, we see that hearing God’s voice isn’t just hearing His voice, it is intimacy with Him.
That’s why God speaks in a whisper – He wants to be near us, as close as divinely possible.
He loves us that much!
One of my favorite examples of this in the Old Testament is what God says to Israel as they are traveling in the wilderness from Egypt to the Promised Land.
God told Moses to build what God called a “tent of meeting.”
This was the holy place where God would meet with His people.
It referred to His dwelling place – a place where God would reveal himself to people and would be among them.
Essentially, God loved His people so much, that He told them to build Him a tent in the midst of them.
You see at this time, God’s people were wandering in the desert – they lived in tents.
God said, “I love you – make me a tent right in the middle of your tents because I want to be near you – with you…you are my delight!”
Guess what?
God still wants to be with us.
One of the names for Jesus is Emmanuel, which means God with us.
God With Us! Let that sink in today.
God loved you so much that He came to be with you…always!
700 years before Jesus was born Isaiah prophesied that the Messiah would come to save the world and that He would be the God Who is With Us!
Get close to God this week, lean into His whisper, allow yourself to experience His nearness…you’ll be so glad you did…Blessings!
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By Crosspointe MinistriesPsalm 46:1 says, “God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.”
Know this – the presence of that trial is not an indicator of God’s absence.
He is with you.
God is with you in all of it.
How should that change us? To understand the revelation that God is in fact, omnipresent?!
Genesis tells us the story of God’s delight in spending time with man walking together in the garden in the cool of the afternoon.
We were in fact created for nearness, for relationship.
God wants you to know that He is near to you today.
He is not a “far away” God.
Though even the thought of heaven and it’s distance from our broken world seems immense, our God – our omnipresent God, has the ability and desire to “be with” us in any and every season and moment of our lives.
Even though we may push Him away at times, He lingers, He stays with us without forcing Himself upon us.
God is so gracious in how he relates to us, isn’t he?
He wants to be even nearer to you than you know.
He says, “you are as close to me as you want to be because I always want to be close to you.”
In 1 Kings 19, God speaks to Elijah in a “whisper.”
Why does God so often speak to us in that “still small voice?’
Well, simply put when someone speaks in a whisper, you have to get very “close” to hear.
In fact, you have to nearly put your mouth in someone’s ear for them to hear the whisper.
We lean toward a whisper, and that’s what God wants.
So, we see that hearing God’s voice isn’t just hearing His voice, it is intimacy with Him.
That’s why God speaks in a whisper – He wants to be near us, as close as divinely possible.
He loves us that much!
One of my favorite examples of this in the Old Testament is what God says to Israel as they are traveling in the wilderness from Egypt to the Promised Land.
God told Moses to build what God called a “tent of meeting.”
This was the holy place where God would meet with His people.
It referred to His dwelling place – a place where God would reveal himself to people and would be among them.
Essentially, God loved His people so much, that He told them to build Him a tent in the midst of them.
You see at this time, God’s people were wandering in the desert – they lived in tents.
God said, “I love you – make me a tent right in the middle of your tents because I want to be near you – with you…you are my delight!”
Guess what?
God still wants to be with us.
One of the names for Jesus is Emmanuel, which means God with us.
God With Us! Let that sink in today.
God loved you so much that He came to be with you…always!
700 years before Jesus was born Isaiah prophesied that the Messiah would come to save the world and that He would be the God Who is With Us!
Get close to God this week, lean into His whisper, allow yourself to experience His nearness…you’ll be so glad you did…Blessings!