We must seek aggressively

Isn’t it interesting that we can see someone who has an amazingly close relationship with God and say, “Wow, I wish I could have that kind of intimacy with Him.” How often are we left wishing we could spend more time in God’s presence, but we think we don’t know how?

It’s like exercising and being in shape. We see the person at the pool who looks like they must spend 4 hours a day at the gym and we say we wish we could look like that; yet we spend our evening on the couch eating pizza and watching television. With God it’s the same way, we don’t have an intimate relationship with Him where we spend much time in his presence if we passively sit on the couch and do not aggressively seek to spend time with Him. It’s easier to sit on the couch and watch television than it is to go to the gym and get in shape. Is it also easier to sit on the couch and watch television than it is to aggressively seek God? Are we willing to do what our mind tells us is hard, so our heart can be blessed?

Just as the ripped body is ours for the taking if we spend time in the gym; true intimacy and time in God’s presence is ours if we aggressively seek Him.