Read Revelation 22:6-17
When we live the life of power and connectedness we see that God does the work. The journey we lead here, as we keep that mindset, reveals to us the intricacies of God. His Spirit connects to us and we walk this life, glorifying as He leads us, we live a life and then the time comes for the outcome of this life when we join Christ in Heaven forever. The joy that fills our heart will be unexplainable. Imagine reaching Heaven and meeting face to face with an old friend, I imagine that the feeling would be glorious. Conversely, if you just prayed a prayer and did not live the life I imagine the feeling would be similar to a nervous trip to the principal’s office when you were young but with much more concern for you to writhe around in. You aren’t meeting your old friend, but the judge. While those who are close are also facing the judge, the judge is someone we have known well for quite some time and we understand He has worked out the deal.
For most of us, we believe that now and the time when we meet God after this life on earth is quite a way off. Of course we don’t know that for sure. Let’s not forget though, this journey is the beauty of this connectedness, so how do we protect it? How do we continue? How do we make this happen? I have no specific answer, but we keep asking those questions and we keep seeking an answer. How I connect may offer a good suggestion to others, however, I may connect better one way that you do and vice versa. I connect best in silence, other with music, some while reading the Word, others while journaling. The point is that you seek it out; you search from your heart for your answer. We are built differently; we enjoy different things. That is the beauty of His creation. So similar, yet so different, yet all unified in our need for this connectedness with our Creator.
The beauty is also; once we truly are connected…everything changes…it doesn’t mean we become perfect. What it does mean is that the things we may try so hard to do or stop doing on our own power, we turn over to Him. Once this happens He takes over our life, and before we know it, the struggles we used to wrestle with and have no victory over are suddenly not that much of a problem. Stumbles still occur, but it is much different.
I hope you are encouraged with this journey we are all on, and the journey that you are on with God. He loves you in a way that is profoundly unexplainable. I hope this weekend has shown you that. I hope that what you have learned this weekend has shown you that this is YOUR journey to discover the many avenues that God wants to be connected with you. He is desperate to have connection with you, I pray that you become desperate for you time with Him as well.
1. What has changed?
2. How do you want to impact or change the world?
3. Explain what new thing you have learned this weekend about God’s love and desire to be connected to you (if you have learned anything new).
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