Intimacy

(Thanks also to Jill Castilla)
I was doing some reading tonight and found out some interesting facts. The earth at the equator is spinning at 1,609 kilometres per hour. As if that is not enough we are travelling through space to make our yearly orbit around the sun at the phenomenal speed of 108,000 kilometres per hour (give or take a K). Yet here I sit at the keyboard as still as can be. I pondered this and thought about how unaware we are of our movement and the incredible speed of it. Then it dawned on me that our Spiritual life is very similar, we are travelling towards our destiny at a great rate of knots but in total unawareness (if there is such a word?) We to can be so unaware of how far we have slipped from our original launch place. That time when we were alive in God, totally aware of His grace and mercy that we had received. We then start our slow drift and in total ignorance are unaware of how far and how fast we have drifted from our first love. Our first love where nothing was too much to give or too hard to do for God. Where another opportunity to attend a meeting or go to a service was greeted with fanciful enthusiasm and not begrudging disdain. Where we had led our children to believe Church was actually great and fun and not a hard place that drains us (their reponses are reflections of our hearts). Passive faith leads to loss in the end. The close walk that you and I had with God in School or Uni or in our younger years is no guarantee of intimacy today.

If you desire to walk intimately with your God, consider what you are doing on a daily basis to foster this intimacy. The prophet Hosea, himself was painfully aware of the waywardness of human hearts, he exhorted Israel,
Hos 6:6 - " I want your constant love, not your animal sacrifices. I would rather have my people know me than burn offerings to me." (GNB)