It's A Long Walk

Walking with God is walking WITH God, not a church or ministry.

If you don't have a relationship with Him, do you know Him at all?

Faith or trust IS based on relational knowledge. Paul wrote about seeking to know God...all over the New Testament.

Sin is missing the mark. Syn was the Old English spelling, and its full definition is the distance between the center of the target and where the arrow lands.

The distance matters.

Sin, in full blown scripture, is the knowledge of the distance between God and man, or good and evil.

It is, and it makes perfect sense if you look at the whole Book.

Knowing our distance, our separation, because compared to Him we are awful, is the problem.

The response matters. We can make failed attempt after failed attempt to try to fix the problem by "doing better", or aiming better, but we will always miss that mark. The mark is Him, being God...perfection.

Him, being who He IS, made us limited. He doesn't make mistakes.

That's what the Book says.

So, being limited, on purpose, why is He expecting us to be perfect?

He is not and never was.

If you make a tool to drive in a screw, but it doesn't work, you made a mistake. It wasn't because the tool was evil, it was because you made it poorly.

Again, God does not make mistakes, yet He made Adam and Eve. They could not even pass the first and ONLY command He gave them. They didn't have the faith. They didn't trust Him. They trusted a snake...which they didn't know at all.

He, of course knew this. No mistakes, and full knowledge and control even over time.

Yes, it was on purpose. He made man to fail, for a reason.

You can hide from these truths, and like Job's friends, defend God without knowing Him at all, or you could sit down with Him to find out why. If you do, you WILL get to know Him.

This will increase your faith.

Yes, it's all about relationship. It always was.

So, you can get to know Jesus by walking with Him or convince yourself you serve Him without ever really knowing Him at all.

You can do this in any church...or ministry.