I am touched.
First, during America, I heard a sermon about "Walking With God" by Pastor Isaac Lim. He first talked about how, when people walk together as friends, they talk with each other. They become like each other. It would be pretty awkward if they did not talk with each other regularly, wouldn't it? It's the same with the Lord: to walk with the Lord, you need to talk to Him, and we do that by prayer. You also will become like Him, because whether you like it or not, you become like the people that you walk with.
The Lord is the only friend that you'll have who'll never tire of you. Even you need to stay away from your friends from time to time, right? Yet He'll be there for you, and always delight in you, and never tire of your presence. For, as stated before, he delights. He delights in us.
Then, if that wasn't enough-- and is any point in time, any sermon, ever truly enough?-- I checked revelife's site, stumbled upon
this entry and a comment which pinpointed me to this:
"Ten Shekels and a Shirt"
http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=10180222445transcript here:
http://media.sermonaudio.com/mediapdf/10180222445.pdfThen I realized that my peace, the peace that I obtain through my interaction with God, should not be an end-- my goal-- but a by-product of my interaction with him. The simple reason to walk with Him: not because there's something in for us, but because we exist to glorify Him, because he gave up His son.
He must fill us. this is more important than for us to understand him, for all we need to know is that He loves us, and He deserves something for His suffering. This is the same as serving a friend who killed his son so that you could live.
Amen.
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