What if?

Have you ever played the game of what if. What if cows could fly and birds had to crawl? You certainly would have to watch out for those cows that fly too low and I can't imagine a bird having much to tweet about if it had to get around on it's belly. What if God isn't thinking what I am thinking at all? Sometimes I wonder if many of us really interpret Him right. I know the Bible is the written word of God and we use that as our guide but I can't believe that God decided to stop talking to us once the Bible was completed.

What if God wants to talk to me today? How do I know when it's Him? I know what it's like to be spiritually deaf. That all started when I went out on my own trying to dedicate my life to God. I started an all out effort to improve my lot in the kingdom. I did all the religious stuff like reading the Bible and attending church. I walked the walk and talked the talk. You would have thought that I was right in the center of God's will by the way I gave myself to things like church planting and serving as a men's pastor. What if God didn't want me to do all that stuff? What if God never intended me to be enslaved to such a dutiful religious life. What if He just wanted me to be His son? Is that possible? That's way too simple, isn't it? No one would recognize me just walking around the earth as one of God's sons. I'm more valuable to Him than that, aren't I?

I guess that what I am trying to say is that no matter how noble our intentions are to please God, no matter how good or dutiful we become, it will never satisfy the longing that God the Father has to unite with us as sons and daughters. That is paramount to Him. It is the only reason that he sent His son on our behalf. He wanted to be reunited with His family. He could not abide with us in our sinful state and so Jesus removed the greatest obstacle between us and the Father. He removed the partition of sin.

What if our returning to Him is the essence of Gods' will? What if God wants each and everyone of us to kneel before Him and admit to Him that we are clueless and that we need Him? What would happen? Maybe we would get to know Him as He really is? Maybe then He could set us on the right path. What if it was that simple?

What if?