January 6
GENESIS 18:1-21:7
God shows his desire to enter into relationship with his creation in innumerable ways in the Bible. We discussed yesterday that God entered into covenants in order to express his desire for relationship and today we see it through God's willingness to enter into conversation with us. When God announces that judgment will fall upon Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham seeks to intervene by entering a dialogue with God. He asks God if there are fifty righteous people could the cities be saved, and God answers yes. Abraham then goes on to ask God if the cities could be saved if there are forty-five, then forty, then thirty, then twenty and finally ten. Abraham has the 'audacity' to converse with God about the possibility of salvation for the cities. He boldly goes to God with the seeming freedom to ask anything and ask repetitively. This same attitude should be ours. Jesus is our great high priest so we can "approach God's throne of grace with confidence." God wants to hear from us, he longs to converse with us and sent his Son to make this possible.
Father God, help me to continually come to you in prayer. I thank you that through the death, resurrection,’ and continued work of Jesus I can come to you with confidence that I will be heard. Thank you that you hear me and respond. Amen.
Question: What are some of the things that keep you from conversing with God more regularly?
God shows his desire to enter into relationship with his creation in innumerable ways in the Bible. We discussed yesterday that God entered into covenants in order to express his desire for relationship and today we see it through God's willingness to enter into conversation with us. When God announces that judgment will fall upon Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham seeks to intervene by entering a dialogue with God. He asks God if there are fifty righteous people could the cities be saved, and God answers yes. Abraham then goes on to ask God if the cities could be saved if there are forty-five, then forty, then thirty, then twenty and finally ten. Abraham has the 'audacity' to converse with God about the possibility of salvation for the cities. He boldly goes to God with the seeming freedom to ask anything and ask repetitively. This same attitude should be ours. Jesus is our great high priest so we can "approach God's throne of grace with confidence." God wants to hear from us, he longs to converse with us and sent his Son to make this possible.
Father God, help me to continually come to you in prayer. I thank you that through the death, resurrection,’ and continued work of Jesus I can come to you with confidence that I will be heard. Thank you that you hear me and respond. Amen.
Question: What are some of the things that keep you from conversing with God more regularly?
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