Do We Really Want to Experience God?

There comes a point in all of our lives where we have to make decisions on where we are headed.  I remember when I was deciding whether or not to ask Autumn to marry me.  This was a big decision I knew if I wasn’t going to I was going to have to break up with up with her.  I knew once I asked her I couldn’t take it back.  I also knew what the answer was going to be.  This was a life changing decision I had to make.  But I made it and have not regretted it since.  There comes a time in our lives when we have to decide are we going to truly experience God or are we going to continue to live just sort of following but not really.  Let me explain, if we truly want to experience God we have to accept His call to follow Him, to go where He asks, to give up what  He wants us to give up, it’s not just a part of our lives it is everything.   We come to a point in our lives where we realize, I have to either continue down this path our I have to jump in and give everything.   Many call this point in our life a crises moment, that moment where we decide to give God everything or turn and run away.  Too many times we want to be able to see how God plans on doing His work through us before we give Him everything.  We want to walk by sight not by faith.

Hebrews 11:6 says; “But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”  The question we must really ask ourselves is, are we truly wanting to please God or please ourselves?  Are we only coming to church because it makes us feel good about us, or so we can tell others, “oh I am a good person because I go to church”, or maybe we come to church because that is how we were raised.  I was one of those who went to church because that is what my family did on Sundays.  I went and I felt safe where I was in life.  I had decided to go to college and get a degree in Law.  Then one night I was sitting in a revival service, when I suddenly was approached with the thought I am called to go into ministry, after a lengthy conversation with God on why this was a bad idea I realized I had to choose either go my on my own do what I felt I wanted to do, or follow God in faith go where He wanted me go.  I am not saying that God is calling you into ministry but He is asking you to give Him your all.

Moses himself when called to go and to do what God had called him to do had a long discussion with God.  Moses makes a list of reasons to why he shouldn’t be God’s man. “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” (Exod. 3:11) “If I go to the Israelites and say to them: The God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they ask me, ‘What is His name?’ what should I tell them?” (Exod. 3:13) “What if they won't believe me and will not obey me but say, ‘The LORD did not appear to you’?” (Exod. 4:1) “Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent—either in the past or recently or since You have been speaking to Your servant—because I am slow and hesitant in speech.” (Exod. 4:10) “Please, Lord, send someone else.”(Exod. 4:13). “In each case, Moses doubted God's power more than he was questioning his own ability. He faced the crisis of belief: Is God really able to do what He says? God finally convinced Moses to become involved in delivering Israel from slavery. Moses' faith is described in Hebrews, however, as a model of self-sacrifice and trust in Almighty God. Once God let Moses know what He was about to do, that revelation became Moses' invitation to join Him. The writer of Hebrews describes Moses' faith and action:”(Blackaby) “By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter and chose to suffer with the people of God rather than to enjoy the short-lived pleasure of sin.…By faith he left Egypt behind, not being afraid of the king's anger, for he persevered, as one who sees Him who is invisible. By faith he instituted the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them. By faith they crossed the Red Sea as though they were on dry land. When the Egyptians attempted to do this, they were drowned.” (Heb. 11:24-29)  The question I ask you today are you ready to take that step of faith and say “I am going to give everything to God and let Him lead me.” 

Blackaby, Richard (2008-09-01). Experiencing God (pp. 47-48). B&H Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.