It’s another day… again. Let’s see if this time I can maintain
the blog without any more delays. It is most difficult to upload documents
without internet access. (Yes, there are still places like that.) Apparently,
not all hospitals have free wifi, or people with cable as I always assumed they
had. I have remedied that situation for my friend now that I’m home and it no
longer matters to me! (insert eye rolling) It is good to be back to writing
again.
So I’ve been thinking
about connection. Just how connected are we with the Lord? Do we only connect
by hardwire to church with Him on Sunday, or are we content with a couple
minutes on our home wifi with Him in the morning. Are we ‘addicted’ enough to
Him to have a mobile wireless connection so we can have 24/7 access everywhere
that we go? That is my choice- even though I don’t utilize that very connection
as often as I should.
Then we must
question: do I only connect to get things, or do I connect to learn more about
the Lord, get feedback (listen), and just to hang out with Him? If I’m honest,
sometimes I’m just too tired or lazy to put much effort into our connection. And
then I wonder why I am struggling with life…
(more eye rolling)
I’m grateful He’s never been as tired or lazy in His
relationship with me.
Behold,
He who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Ps.121:4
It’s funny how
people these days share everything online. Cool sayings, cute puppies, provoking
thoughts, jokes, funny videos, news, politics, even gross stuff no one really
wants to see. ‘Hey, look at this,’ ‘like this,’ ‘check this out’ ‘come see/
listen.’ We share even the crazy things that we saw, did, or that happened to
us, but we don’t share our Lord the same way or with the same excitement.
Ouch!
In the old days of
Israel, only the high priest had direct access to the presence of the holy God,
once a year in the Holy of Holies. It must have been scary because if they were
not cleansed properly, they could die and would have to be dragged out (since
no one else could go in). The Holy of Holies was behind a special (heavy)
curtain in the Tabernacle and/or Temple. How sad that the rest of the people
didn’t have that same access to the King of Glory.
And
after the second veil was a tabernacle
which is called the Holy of Holies,… But once in
the year into the second the high priest goes
alone, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the errors of
the people) Hb. 9:3,7
The cross changed
everything. When Jesus died, the Temple veil was torn- from the top down- as
only God could do- to show that through Jesus we have access directly to God’s
presence once again as had existed in the Garden of Eden before the fall of
man. And it is 24/7 IF we want it; but God will not force Himself in our lives.
We must enter willingly. If we only want that hardwire connection on Sunday, or
maybe even include the 5 minutes a day, there is little relationship being
built with Him and our lives will not be full of the blessings He wishes in our
lives.
(about
Jesus Christ) but by His own blood He entered once for all into the Holies, having
obtained eternal redemption for us. Hb.
9:12
As for me and all
those willing to join me: let’s push our limits to the 24/7 unlimited
bandwidth, mobile wifi relationship He wants to have with us. Care to join us
too?
Therefore,
brothers, having boldness to enter into the Holy of
Holies by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He has consecrated
for us through the veil, that is to say, His flesh; and having a High Priest over the house of God, let
us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith,… Hb. 10:19-22