The God who covers all

Sometimes, there comes a time in your Christian walk when you wonder if God is still there. These are those times when that Hallmark type poster on your wall about the one set of footprints just doesn't cut it anymore. What do you do? Do you pray? Confess sins? Go to a rally and have a spiritual experience? Read your Bible?

Yes to all and No to them

Huh? You say. What on earth are you an about?

We tend to make it an issue when we don't hear anything from God, forgetting that many people don't hear things sometimes..But, somehow, they get through life. They go to work, play with their kids and manage not to lose it. However, we as Christians somehow need some special revelation, don't we? If we don't get it, we 'lose it', get all anxious, and then feel guilty about being anxious. We then plead to God to 'show' himself to us - and pout like kids when he doesn't

The essence of common grace is that he has given certain things to the world that shout out this loud, unmistakable cry: " I AM "

And special grace, the saving grace, that includes us into his family whispers: " I am."

Both the same message in a way, yet different. To the world, he declares " I am the one who created the world in whose abundance you enjoy, gave you the soil you now till and poison and the seas that give you sustenance. " Everyone partakes of this.

But to the elect, he almost inaudibly speaks to their heart " I am your saviour, You are mine and I am yours". Only the elect partake of this

If you have been captured by God, saved from eternal damnation through the substitutionary atoning work of Christ on the Cross; then you need to know that there is a centre where the two "I am"'s become one . And your only response in the awesome crux of two meeting points should be:

You are

And the issue that befell you will slip away because you will see with mind, heart and soul that he is a God who covers all. If there is sin, it is the sin of limiting him to just covering that small patch of loneliness for a while like a band-aid.

God is not interested in being your handyplast. He's interested in doing open heart, totally invasive surgery on you. He want to give you a makeover that is total, not purely cosmetic.

He covers all, because the universe belongs to him. Everything, lock stock and barrel..including you.

You can do all the things above and not come to know God any better until you acknowledge that it is God who comes to you, not the other way around. Worse, don't think he obeys your bidding like some servant because you 'pull' the right levers or incantate the 'right' things

That's why I said - yes to all and no to all of the above prescribed remedies