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.

Pastor Joe Schiren is the Worship and Connections Pastor at the Potsdam Church of the Nazarene.