What was Lost, Is Now Found: His Presence

New but not so new revelation, actually completely not new at all. But the Holy Spirit has put this on my heart in the midst of post grad season and just the various feelings and emotions I’ve experienced as of lately. Partially due to the coronavirus, just seeing how much one disease can change so much of our lives within such a short amount of time. And again and again, I see so much of our efforts and energy being poured into learning more about it, social distancing, just trying to find some type of control in the midst of uncertainty. But the more I look at it, the more I am finding my confidence, not in the things in front of my eyes, but in the word of God. With the help of sermons I watched this past week and I think just the grace of God unveiling my unbelief in His word[1], the more and more I am seeing this theme of His Presence. And I’ll link this long and personal blog about how God has taken me through a series of steps to come to see that up until now there was an unhealthy fear of His presence in my life. It was something I was scared of, I had feelings of His judgement and shame and guilt and just this feeling of being unworthy to be loved by Him. It’s just all these lies that really caused me to not fully trust His word and who He said He is and finding security.

But as I read the Bible and as God is slowly helping me come to realize, His presence is life. God’s presence- who He is and what He is doing in this world has not changed since the beginning of time unlike the things of a fallen world. The one thing I feared is the only thing that is absolutely necessary and should be the goal of the gospel and everything we do as Christians. Jesus came down to reconcile us and restore what was lost: the ability to be in God’s presence, to know God personally, and to thus worship, love and be loved by Him as we were originally created to do.

[1]https://youtu.be/x4stgqN2oZ0