What Comes First?

God.  God comes first.  So, if you are out there and you are just getting started or re-started on this Christian journey, the very first thing you need to get worked out is your connection or relationship to and with God. Let's take some baby steps.

Ok, if you can understand things in the natural world, you will be able to understand things in the spiritual world where God exist (because God is a spirit not a flesh and blood human).  So let's start with the natural world.  When you first meet somebody (if we take their looks out of the equation), how do you get to know them?  Right, you talk to them.  By listening to the person talk you get information about the person: What does she like? What does she think about? What are her hopes and dreams?  When you talk back, you give information to the person about yourself.  The more information you give and receive the more you and the other person are exposing yourselves to each other.  It is this mutual exposure that makes you feel all warm and flustered when you begin talking to someone of the opposite sex. 

Mutual exposure is what keeps you on the phone until someone makes you hang up (and then you inappropriately sneak on your cell phone).  One of our greatest desires is to know and be known.  As humans (the non-dysfunctional ones) we crave connections, and the more connected we feel, the happier we are.  Think about it, why is it so important to have friends when we are young, boyfriends when we get older, and spouses later on?  It is because God made us for relationships.  First God created us to be in a relationship with him but the whole Adam ate the dirty apple thing, then blamed Eve and tried to hide from God messed everything up.  So because we as humans fell out of relationship with God we try to fill our need for relationships with other people.

So here comes the spiritual, the first thing you need is to connect with God by honestly exposing yourself to God, talking to God and allowing God to talk to you.  God is ever present and if you are interested in striking up a conversation with him, you need to start talking and then you need to stop and listen, and then talk some more and then stop and listen and keep repeating this process until you and God are super-tight.  This is the completely broken down baby food jar beginner lesson in starting your relationship with God.  Tomorrow we are going to take some more steps and even discuss a scripture or two so brace yourselves.  Today, if you have never talked to God start with 10 minutes.  Just 10 minutes where you have some open and honest communication with God and wait to see if you can hear God talk back to you.

Tomorrow, we are going to go over steps you can take to effectively communicate with God.  We want to maximize every opportunity you have to be in the presence of God and hear God's voice.  But for today, lets take the first baby steps.  Post here or on our Facebook page and let us know how it is going.