Eden - Walking With God

Eden. Adam and Eve walked with God and talked with Him. For this you and I were made and this we must recover.

How do we recover and walk on the path with God and truly learn to hold his hand in the best and the worst times? For those of you that have seen Tin man from the SciFi channel, it reminds me of our walk with God sometimes. There was a scene from one of the episodes where the sisters find the wicked old witch and the older sister keeps telling her younger sister “Just hold onto my hand” “Just keep hold to me” “She can’t touch us as long as we’re together” “She can’t hurt you” “Just trust me” all these things and more were said from the older sister to the younger. God does the same with us. “Just hold on to me, just stay with me, He cannot harm you, keep hold to my hand and trust me.” How often do we give up our hold on God’s hand and simply let fear drive us away from Him when really it should be what pushes us to him more than anything else. God will not force us to hold his hand nor to walk with him… and yet His hand is always there, perhaps invisible but waiting right in front of us for us to reach out and reach up and take hold of it and pull ourselves back to our feet. DC Talk wrote a song which said “What if I stumble and what if I fall, what if I make fools of us all” I realized something when thinking about that song. We are human and frail and long for acceptance and so we are afraid of making fools of ourselves or making fools of the christian faith. It at times amuses me simply to think of and study on that thought. Some people would think that we are afraid of making a fool of God. God is holy, and his glory is what created our world. I do not think that He did created us for us to bring Him glory, He created us out of the glory that is in and is Him. We worry about something like making a fool of God when I believe He is standing there reaching down and pleading with us: “I’m not worried about you making a fool of yourself or making a fool of Me, Take my hand so I can save your soul and have you live beside me for Eternity.”

How can we turn away from that call and that pleading for our souls and our lives… He doesn’t simply want us to find and turn to Him the day before we die but he calls for us asking and wanting us to live a life that he really wants to. A life full of joy and happiness and fulfillment of the gifts that we were given by Him. If we will come to Him and find Him and walk with Him, He will guide us and teach us to live our lives in and through His power. He can reveal to us our dreams and show and guide us how to achieve them and create them through His grace and power. By Grace we are saved and through Grace we can truly live through his power and strength. Bless and thank God for holding tight to us and keeping us in His arms

We have to jettison ourselves through the fear… like an astronaut having to fix the shuttle we have to break through the fear and float free through space and trust that we will be ok and that He is holding us in His hand able to keep us safe and secure in His grace and glory. We need to build our foundations so we can trust them to be pillars and support us when we need to trust unto them. Like rappelling we need to know that the thing on top of the cliff that we are tying off too and trusting to will hold up and not break once our weight or the pressure of us falling is placed upon it. Once our foundations are built and strong we need to increase our strength in our faith and in believing that we can do anything through the strength of God and Christ who has saved our souls. For through Him we can do anything, even unto taking dominion over all the world and bringing it into His Kingdom.

Trails of thought:

What do we dream of and how can we make sure that our dreams line up with God’s word and what steps do we need to take to make sure that they work and get off the ground and not just fall to the carpet.

The fight for your life is a battle for your Joy… Satan tries and often succeeds in stealing our joy away from us, for when we are not joyful we often do not worship and do not grow closer with him because without joy we often do not seek intimacy and connection either with our family, spouse or God.

How often do women when they are married find or decide that they are not going to get any real intimacy from their husbands so they give themselves off to soap operas or romance novels and lust and long for the feelings described in the words of the writer. What as men can we do to keep our wives from ever falling into that?