Verse Text: "For I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine (share intimately) with Him and he with Me."
These words, spoken by Christ Himself, drive a stake of clarity throught he heart of man's lingering dilemma..."Why am I here?"Our thirsting, searching souls and God's thundering passion collide in one awesome purpose: God wants us to know Him intimately, for this we have been created. I'm staggered to think that God wants to be known by us all, yet at the cross He made His intentions painfully clear. If God ever wanted an "out" in His relationship with man, He got it with the sin of Adam and Eve, and their subsequent banishment from Eden. God could have wiped out man from the face of the earth and walked away without tarnishing His eternal image in the slightest, but He didn't. Do you know why? Because two things were lost in the garden that day. Man lost innocence and fellowship with his Maker, but God lost man as well, and the relationship with him He so desired. Isn't it astonishing to think that both God and man wept as a barricade of sin separated the created from their Creator, both forfeiting love and laughter in the cool of the day. By choices not His own, God was estranged from those He created by and for Himself. And how did God respond?
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Relentlessly, He pursued man, like He is pursuing you even now. Through centuries of time, merciful God steered history to the manger. Yet even that was not enough. Having miraculously shown earth His face in the countenance of His Son, God orchestrated Christ's brutal death on a hill they called "The Skull." Motivated by an intense passion for His name and Holy reputation, God abandoned Christ to suffer the sin of countless Edens, opening wide amazing gates of grace, invtiting the outcast sinner to return to His loving embrace.The cross of Christ has made a way for God to reconnect with you and me. Through Jesus Christ, Infinite and Holy God has made a way for you to know Him, both now and forever. With wounded hands the door's held open wide, nothing you have or hold is more precious than this invitation. God is knocking in the searching of your soul. Will you open the door, return His advance and engage His passionate gaze? Like Adam, God has formed you by His own hand, creatiing you uniquely and specifically for Himself. Without ceasing, He has pursued you through ever moment of time with an invitation more valuable than life itself, forgiven and clean through faith in Jesus Christ, you can know God...intimately, personally, daily, eternally. God's offer is on the table. He waits for your response.
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