Facebook, Twitter, Skype, E-mail, Cell phones, Texting, and quick transportation from point A to point B. Seems like the 21st century should be a century where people are surrounded by friends. We may be surrounded, and we may have 100's even thousands of "friends" and "followers" online, but that doesn't mean that we are not alone. In fact, we live in a more dis-personal (not sure that word is in the dictionary!) world.
It is easy to hide behind the exposure, to present onside online, yet, when we log off, when our phones are silent, and our beds just house us, we realize how alone we actually feel.
Modern technology fakes us into thinking we have all this contact, yet it is all through technology. We don't have to work to talk to each other, so we don't make the effort to see each other, to touch and be in the same room. Physical contact is huge, and we have stolen that from ourselves. We may be more exposed, be we are less connected in the ways that matter. We are no longer intimate with people.
One of the things that really strikes me about God is that He is personal. God is the supreme ruler of the whole universe. God created and reigns over EVERYTHING. God is holy. God is just. God is righteous. God is all knowing. God is all powerful. God is everything good and beautiful. And God is interested in YOU and ME!!
The God that runs the universe not only says that it is ok to come to Him with all our thoughts, He practically begs us to! God wants to have constant contact! God wants to be involved in all aspects. God not only wants short updates, but he wants the full fledged contact that modern technology fails to bring. God wants to be allowed to probe into us. God wants us to probe into His nature.
The God of the universe. The God that saved your soul, the God that delivered the men from the deadly furnace, the God that dwells within the heart of Billy Graham, wants to have a very intimate relationship with each of us! God is personal, and He wants to get personal with you!
Will you let Him?
-JLP-
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