Thursday, January 27, 2011
Sensitive God
God, the creator, the almighty, the all powerful, the omnipotent, the omniscient, the sensitive, wait what? God is sensitive? Yes He is! Now I am not referring to feelings. He is not easily offended, his feelings are not easily hurt but He is easily activated. How, You ask?. He is activated by sound and by movement! God is sound sensitive and motion sensitive, meaning just as the sound of clapping hands turn on and off the lights when a clapper is installed and just as the water turns on and off as a result of the hands moving under a motion sensitive faucet head, our God is activated, similarly, by sound and by movement(and yes I really just referenced the clapper and a faucet to get my point across). I mean he instructs, "draw nigh to me and I will draw nigh to you" in James 4. He is saying you move I move. Furthermore, as you look back through the history of mankind, you find God allowing His chosen people, the Israelites, to be enslaved 400 years because they turned their backs on Him. But we find that as soon as they cried out for rescue, He sent rescuers, Moses and Aaron. But the story that really emphasizes this point is in Mark 6 45-51. There we find Jesus, just finished feeding 5000 with 5 loaves and 2 fish, he says "good bye" to them and sends his disciples out onto the lake in the boat and He proceeds up the hill to pray alone. About 3am he comes down and he sees his disciples struggling against the wind and the waves. They are in a storm and Jesus begins to walk on the water towards them. Now the next 6 words really messed me up, "He intended to pass them by" wait, hold up, what? Jesus wasnt walking towards them to save them? Well, not according to His Word! Can you say CRAZY? He is intending to pass on, but then the disciples cry out and immediately His sound sensors are activated and He responds. "Don't be afraid, it is I." And then he climbs in the boat and says to the winds "Be still", and we know the wind obeyed and the disciples were totally amazed! Totally amazed, as I was when I first saw the commercial for the clapper and experienced a motion sensitve faucet for the first time. But in all seriousness, I am totally amazed that He has given us the power to activate Him into our lives by the sound of our voice and the movements in our actions!
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