Because I live, you also will live.
John 14:19
Relationship
with God today in so many directions, and over such a wide range, is not a
living relationship. There is an acknowledgment of God, there is a form of
worship of God, there are rites connected with God; yes, there is a recognition
in a greater or lesser measure of a kind of devotion to God, worship of God,
acknowledgment of God, perhaps desire for God, but all short of a living
relationship with God. Yet that He is the living God means that those who are
related to Him should live. He would say, "Because I live ye shall live
also." A living relationship with God is possible....
It is not
a relationship with some dead order of things, but with a living Person. But I
must ask, Have you that living relationship? Are you following a system, an
order, or are you in living fellowship with a living God? The Lord desires that
such a relationship with Him shall be living all the way along. It is a great
thing to know that you have access to the living God. You do not know whether a
thing is right or wrong? Well, you have the living God, ask Him; He is open, He
is accessible, He is alive; you can have dealings with Him. Just to enjoy a
living relationship with a living God is how He wills it to be. The desire of
His heart is that you should treat Him as being a living God. "He that
cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that
diligently seek Him." We must believe, when we come, that He is; not
feeling out into the universe, the vacant, empty universe. No, we are coming to
a living Person; we believe that He is! There is nothing vague about that.
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