Our Connection with God
by Pastor Joe Schiren
Last week, I
wrote about my connection to the world around and how it fills me with wonder.
I hope you make time in your life to observe and react to the world around you.
God, in his grace, did not place us in a dull, boring environment, but one full
of marvels.
Expanding
the idea of connections, I think about my connection to God. This connection fills
me with hope and peace. Think for a moment about your connection with God. Our connections to God are very personal and
private realities. While we may proclaim them publicly, and celebrate them in a
collective setting (church), and even experience them through other people, our
connections to him take place in the deepest cores of our being. For me, I
speak to God in the silence of the night and from that place within me that no
one else ever sees. A line from the Psalms seems appropriate here: “On my bed I
remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night. Because you are
my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings. My soul clings to you; your right
hand upholds me” (Psalm 63:6-8). Much of my connection to God I experience
privately and very deeply. In that private connection I know that no matter
what happens around me, and no matter whether I succeed or fail, God will never
leave me nor forsake me. “Oh no, you never let go,” is part of a song we sing
in church, and that truth gives me hope and peace.
What is the core of your connection with God? Where and how do you
experience him the most? What does this connection do for you? Add your comment
below and join the conversation.
Pastor Joe Schiren is the Worship and Connections Pastor at the Potsdam Church of the Nazarene.