My people perish. go astray, are being taken captive and led into bondage because of a lack of knowledge. This knowledge is not the learning from schooling, for then we will mostly be free and prospering. Neither is this knowledge the knowledge of the demonic or specific doctrines of the church or the Bible, for then we would have already infected the entire globe with freedom. No, this knowledge is the knowledge, the knowing of God. We, as the church, the bride and Body of Jesus Christ, do not know Him.
There is no understanding of His ways. Few know His character enough to refuse the lie when it is whispered in their ear. And even fewer knows His voice.
The knowledge, the relationship, the seeking after God; has taken second place to our inner fightings about words, doctrine, methods and interpretations. We have become so concerned with the provision for the bride that we have left her standing outside in the rain.
God reveals Himself to those who diligently seek Him... Not seeking His gifts, His justifying your point of view or behavior. He reveals Himself to those who come to Him for Himself.
Where have all the God seekers gone? The master of the wedding feast said to those who have done the signs and miracles and wonders, go away for I know you not. Do we even have an idea of where the map is that leads us to the treasure of an intimate, personal relationship with God? Have we walked with Him in the cool of the evening? Have we heeded His call into seasons of separations, prayer and fasting? Have we neglected His written word or twisted it to fit our pet-doctrine and pyramid scheme?
Where does God fit into our lives? Is He the beginning and the end? Or maybe He is just the first 10 minutes and last 2 minutes of our day. Maybe we only call on Him when the buildings starts to colapse and grey smoke and ash billows in the streets, like the monsters in a sci-fi movie, toward us. And even further away, have we reduced Him to a word of cursing that we use when we are outraged or stub our toe? Where does He fit into our lives?
Are you one of the few, the very few, who have found the treasure of being truely in Him? Have you found the sweet aroma of His presence, that makes even the darkest cloud have a silver lining? Have you found in Him a lover, a friend, a companion, a father, a brother that is there when you breath His name and even if you don't? And do you know the awesome nearness of His presence. Can you recognise His manifested presence in the quiet or in the noise? Can you tell what is Him and what is not? Do you see Him coming to you riding the clouds, enthroned on your praise and lifted high in the exaltation of your bended heart in worship?
