890 If You Only Knew

Today, God is inviting us deeper. Into a deeper understanding. Into a deeper relationship. Into deeper grace and deeper peace. What you currently know is just the surface of what he has available for you. Come deeper. It’s easy for us to read all the stories in the bible and just keep them as stories. Stories we were told as kids. Stories we hear in church. Stories of things happening to people long ago that seem outdated and unrealistic for our lives today. Seas don’t stand on their end to let people pass any longer. 9 foot giants don’t fall when boys throw rocks today. Water doesn’t turn to wine in 2021. Our people now don’t just get up and walk after being crippled for 30 years. Animals don’t just line up to get on a boat when it starts raining … heck I can barely get my dog to drop the stick to play fetch. Why did all of these miraculous things happen back then, but we no longer see it today? Is life so different now that God no longer works in the ways he once did? Well let me tell you, God is timeless. He always was and always will be. His power has not run out. He hasn’t grown tired. He isn’t taking a break or catching his breath. Our world has gotten busier and louder, with more distractions. It’s hard to see what God is doing because we’re so enamored with a darn 15 second video on TikTok, and after that video there’s countless others just waiting for your hungry eyes to be fixed on. It’s hard to hear God’s voice because we never take the airpod out of one ear. It’s hard to recognize God’s answered prayer because you’ve moved on to the next thing before acknowledging what he did for you already. Is God still working? YOU BET HE IS! Is God still doing the impossible in our midst? ABSOLUTELY. RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW. Can he still make giants fall? Can he still make a way through the sea? Can he still heal and restore? Can he still turn nothing into something? Can he still align the miraculous? YES! Can we be still long enough to experience it? Can we look up from our phones to see it? Can we turn off the noise to hear him? Can we stay in the moment long enough to know it’s him? My sister, God is calling us into a deeper relationship with him. Deeper than the surface where we’ve been hanging out. Deeper into knowing the stories of the bible as more than just stories, and seeing them as a playbook of God’s ways. An outline of his love that is still alive and well here in our lives today, and his power that is still on display and touching every area of our reality. Jesus tells us in Matthew 7:7 “Knock and the door will be opened to you.” Maybe we’re not really knocking, we’re barely pecking at the door. We’re so hesitant to come on into what God really has for us, that we’re just tapping. Maybe you want God to do something in your life, or maybe you don’t because what would that require of you? Oh, if we’re being honest you know you’ve wrestled with that fear. If you really surrender it all to God, what will he ask you to give up? What crazy place would he take you and what impossible work would he request of you? How much of what you love would you have to exchange for what God is asking of you? That’s why we tap on the door. We’re scared. Scared to knock, because what if he really opens it? What we have forgotten is the truest and deepest desires within our heart are put there by our creator to begin with. He gave you your deepest desires as a seed to bring you to your life’s purpose. He’s not going to rip your heart’s greatest desire right out of you as some cruel act of fate. He’s going to show you the way to those deep desires and use everything for good. Another reason we hesitate to really knock on the door...