Communion with God

Does God speak to us today?  Christianity is supposed to be a heart-to-heart, or spirit-to-spirit relationship with God, wherein God reveals Himself in friendship to those who love Him.  Jesus said, "If anyone love Me, ....the Father and I will come and make our home with him."  And He also said, "I have much more to say to you, but you cannot bear it now.  When the Spirit of Truth comes, He will reveal to You all that I have said...and lead you into all Truth."

Jesus also said:  "I no longer call you 'servants' but 'friends," for a servant does not know what his master is doing."

So why do we not think that God would speak to us today, leading us into all truth and guiding our paths as surely as He guided Abraham to the land of Canaan and established him there?  I think maybe it is because for most of us, religion means "following the rules," "being good," "getting to heaven," etc. instead of cultivating a relationship with God. 

God is more interested in communing with us than we are in communing with Him.  We do not really believe that God, the Creator of heaven and earth, could really be interested in speaking with us.  "Do you think God thinks we ask too much?" one of my students once asked me.  "I think He might think we don't ask enough," was my answer.  But it's not just about asking----it's about communion of spirit to Spirit. 

If we could really believe that God is waiting for us, that He wants to commune with us on a daily basis, that He wants to open the door to all truth to us, that He wants us to know His inner mind and heart and is willing to reveal that to us, we might put aside for a moment other concerns to begin to listen.

In the next few posts, I will begin to outline practical ways to listen to God, based on both ancient and modern wisdom from those who practice communion with God, spirit-to-Spirit.  My prayer is that this ancient wisdom may penetrate our hearts and minds and release our spirits to accept that which God wants to pour into us.