Our Relationship with God

 The power of our relationship with God, as our Father and our Sovereign Lord, is not based on our feelings at any particular moment, nor is it proportional to whether we’ve had a ‘good’ service in church, nor a ‘good’ quiet time, nor a ‘good’ worship time, nor how much we are ‘doing’.

 The Power of our relationship with God is based on fact: undeniable fact, unarguable fact, that through Christ we are Children of God: not that we shall be, nor that we were, but are not any more, but ARE, both now and forever.

 To return to our feelings: a Soldier is still a soldier, whether in the front line fighting, or in training in boot camp. That soldier is always, at any moment, likely to be flung into battle. The Christian ‘soldier’ is always on the front-line of the Spiritual Battle, whatever the current state of the battle may ‘appear’ to be, or whatever our ‘feelings’ are.  Feelings and emotions ebb & flow, but our relationship with God our Father is unmoving, solid, and totally dependable.

 When all appears quiet, or there does not appear to be much happening in our particular strategic placement, we must not allow ourselves to think that nothing is happening.  We must always live all out in the reality that, our relationship with God does not depend solely upon what we are ‘doing’ or what we are ‘feeling’ or what we ‘see’ around us.

We ARE Children of God, both now and forever.