AN INTIMATE ADVENTURE
God is calling us to an intimate adventure with Himself, through a dark and dangerous world, amidst great battle and many struggles, to an eternal destination that is indescribably good and unimaginably wonderful.
I bet this doesn’t sound like anything you’re used to hearing in your typical sunday sermon. It’s more like ‘God wants you to be holy, good, better’ etc. It’s more often tips and techniques on how to be a better serving christian or moral person…and they may be mostly true, but there is a much bigger story here that many are missing and it’s what we’re missing that’s killing us.
We won’t be the servants God wants us to be, bound only by duty and obligation, and we won’t go to the ends of the earth for Him unless we’re deeply in love with Him and our hearts fully engaged.
I believe the caption above is the desire of God’s heart and as we read and study His Word with a revived heart, I think the evidence is quite clear.
God isn’t just looking for us to be good little christians, not sinning, behaving decently and being nice to one another. John 4:23 says He’s seeking for those who will worship (love and adore) Him in spirit and truth. We are called to take up our place in the story God is telling, an epic story filled with danger, drama and adventure.
Our part in the tale was ordained and planned for us long before we ever arrived here. Psalm 139:13-16 says He created our inmost being (our heart, where we do our deepest thinking, hold our most precious memories, know the greatest joy and love, and the deepest pain) and that all the days ordained for us were written in His book before one of them came to be. Not just the number of those days, but the story of them.
We have a unique role in the story, and for this we were born. It is where we will be the best we can be, where the glory of God will shine bright from our hearts, where we are being restored toward life to the full…being fully alive.
In Christ and Christ alone, we find our identity, our destiny and our mission here in this world. And it is in walking with Him daily in this close relationship that we discover all this as we take the journey, the intimate adventure we were meant for.
God could have made us all robots and thereby better servants, if that was his chief purpose…but no, we are saved and rescued from the kingdom of darkness for an intimate love adventure with Christ. The account of Mary and Martha in Luke 10 reminds us of this.
This is the appeal of the gospel, and what stirs our hearts with hope for that which we mostly deeply long for within, to love and be loved and be caught up in a great romance and adventure of epic proportions.
Let’s come alive in the story God’s telling, becoming who we were born to be. We are now well into this epic tale, the hour is late, the world is waiting, and God is calling. Do we dare?
