Communion With God
We talk a lot about intimacy with the Lord, walking with him, knowing him and having fellowship with him; but the truth is that we can’t have true communion with God unless we receive into our hearts the full revelation of his love, grace and mercy.
Communion with God consists of two things:
1. Receiving the love of the Father
2. Loving him in return
You can spend hours each day in prayer, telling the Lord how much you love him, but that isn’t communion.
If you haven’t received his love, you haven’t had communion with him. You simply can’t share intimacy with the Lord unless you’re secure in his love for you.
When you come to the Lord, you are not coming to a hard, fierce, demanding Father. He doesn’t wait for you with an angry countenance. He doesn’t trail you waiting for you to fail so he can say, “I caught you!”
Rather, we are coming to a Father who has revealed to us his pure, unconditional love.
He is kind and tenderhearted, full of grace and mercy, and anxious to lift all our cares and burdens. We know that he will never turn us down when we call on him.
The prophet Zephaniah says something incredible about God’s love for us. He writes, “The Lord your God in your midst, the Mighty One, will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing” Zephaniah 3:17.
He won’t take his love back. His love is a settled matter!”
He cares about everything concerning you. So, receive his word that he loved you even before you were born, and he always will. Accept that he loves you, and that’s why you come into his courts with praise and thanksgiving because you are thankful for who God is.