Because I live, you also will live. (John 14:19 NIV)
Relationship with God today in so many directions, and over such a wide
range, is not a living relationship. There is an
acknowledgment of God, there is a form of worship of
God, there are rites connected with God; yes, there is a
recognition in a greater or lesser measure of a kind of
devotion to God, worship of God, acknowledgment of
God, perhaps desire for God, but all short of a living
relationship with God. Yet that He is the living God
means that those
who
are related to Him should live. He
would say, "Because I live ye shall live also." A living
relationship with God is possible....
It is
not a relationship with some dead order of things, but
with a living Person. But I must ask, Have you that living
relationship? Are you following a system, an order, or
are you in living fellowship with a living God? The Lord
desires that such a relationship with Him shall be living all
the way along. It is a great thing to know that you have
access to the living God. You do not know whether
a thing is right or wrong? Well, you have the living
God, ask Him; He is open, He is accessible, He is alive;
you can have dealings with Him. Just to enjoy a living
relationship with a living God is how He wills it to be. The
desire of His heart is that you should treat Him as being
a living God. "He that cometh to God must believe that
He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently
seek Him." We must believe, when we come, that He is; not feeling out into the universe, the vacant, empty
universe. No, we are coming to a living Person; we
believe that He is! There is nothing vague about that.