One of my late uncles was a cardiologist. One day as he attended a school rugby match, in which his son was playing, one of the scholars was injured. My uncle immediately went to the injured boy to examine him. While he was busy, a nurse, who was operating as medical officer, arrived on the scene and immediately pushed my uncle aside telling him to stay out of the way.
As he stepped aside, he calmly answered her, “If you reach the part where you want to call the doctor, here I am”.
When in trouble we often start to fret and panic, and I can actually imagine God trying to tell us, “If you reach the stage where you want to call Me, here I am”. He is always present yet we treat Him as absent. The funny part is that we treat God as if He is absent but when we experience a disaster, He gets the blame for it.
When we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour, the following takes place as well:
The Holy Spirit comes into our heart and remains there. Wherever we go, the Holy Spirit goes with. Whatever we ask or tell God, He hears. Whatever we do, God sees. Whatever we think or imagine, God knows.
Redemption leads us to a brand new relationship with God. It has to be received and it has to be lived.
God created us for one purpose and that is to have a close relationship with us and to lead us into developing a beautiful earth. It would have been easy for God to create the world we know in its present state of modern development by saying the word, but I suppose He wanted us to take part in His plans and therefore He made us partners in His business, partners for life. In order to achieve that, God, who is Spirit, desires interaction and fellowship with us on a close and constant basis.
I have grandchildren whom I love very much. I always want to be close to them and hug them but a child has a mind of his own. They will only allow someone close to them if they want to be close to that person too.
The most amazing fact is that the only way God can be close to us, is if we allow Him to come close to us!
God is gentle; He will not force anyone to be close to Him. We have to choose to be with Him, to talk to Him and to love Him, to trust Him and if we choose not to, God will not force us to spend eternity with Him.
However, if we want to be close to God in heaven, we should start practicing now because life in heaven starts here.