You,
“Day by Day”
We
are servants and friends of the Lord but it is not a profitable venture. It is
filled with terrifying words and situations like plunder and pillaging,
surrender and martyrdom. It is being taken advantage of and often playing the
fool when everything in you calls for vengeance. It is the fear of such things
that makes it hard for us to commit to our relationship with God. After all,
God can’t ask anything of us if we don’t get too close, right?
As
wrong as that sentiment is, it doesn’t change the fact that God does want to be
close to you. So close in fact that daily bread goes from standardised, routine
prayers to a fluid conversation. So close that He can call you friend. It is a
light burden compared to the weight of daily sin.

You
want to be close to God too. There is a space inside you longing to be filled,
a hole that seems to grow wider the further you are away from him. It aches and
it throbs and it keeps you up at night. And everything you try to fill it with
falls through or washes over it, barely making a difference. You know what
needs to be done.