Go Deeper!
Yesterday I decided to start digging a trench and burrowing underneath my sidewalk and driveway.
I had been contemplating running the electrical lines that go to our two-car garage and the also the shop behind our house underground for years.
Well, due to other maintenance that is needed, the time has come. No more procrastinating, right?
There is another subject for a future blog post, huh?
Anyway, I was able to dig and burrow under the sidewalk in a couple hours, but the driveway was a different story!
I kept hitting something after the first three or four feet and had to keep adjusting my angle to go deeper. I must have pulled out the PVC pipe half a dozen times and adjusted the angle because I would come to another hidden obstruction.
The last time was the most frustrating as I was within four inches or less of the other side! I had dug and dug up under the driveway trying to find this last hidden obstruction but to no avail!
Then I adjusted the angle again and started the borrowing process all over again.
The PVC pipe had made it! I was finally far enough but I still couldn’t see the pipe.
I knew that pipe was far enough so all I could figure was that it was deeper than I thought it was.
I dug and dug. The further down I went the more I started doubting myself.
Then I found the end of the PVC pipe nearly three feet down!
After about six hours I had made it to the other side of the driveway. Praise the Lord!
As I took another break, which seems to be much more often than a few years ago, I thought about how deep I had gone before revealing the pipe.
This made me think about our relationship with the Lord.
I once thought I had a true and deep relationship with Jesus back when I was drinking, cussing like a “sailor”, smoking a carton of cigs a week and looking at pornography daily.
Heh! I went to church and even attended Bible studies. I was convinced that Jesus loved me just the way I was.
You could say that I believed and truly was enjoying a comfortable relationship with Jesus.
But as I dug deeper and deeper in the word of God, he started revealing the truth and I realized I really had a very shallow relationship with him.
In fact, I learned that I did not have a relationship with him at all. I just knew about him but I didn’t really KNOW him!
I lived in darkness but claimed to be in the light with Jesus.
When we GO DEEPER into the word of God, HE will reveal to us the truth about our relationship with HIM!
Ever since the scales were removed from my eyes, I have always done my best to let others know that they must GO DEEPER.
So many people think they have a relationship with the Lord but don’t.
Listen! I am still GOING DEEPER every day I want to encourage ya’ll to do the same!
Please read the following scripture, asking God to reveal what HE wants to as you read it.
1 John 1:1-2:5 GNB (1) We write to you about the Word of life, which has existed from the very beginning. We have heard it, and we have seen it with our eyes; yes, we have seen it, and our hands have touched it. (2) When this life became visible, we saw it; so we speak of it and tell you about the eternal life which was with the Father and was made known to us. (3) What we have seen and heard we announce to you also, so that you will join with us in the fellowship that we have with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. (4) We write this in order that our joy may be complete. (5) Now the message that we have heard from his Son and announce is this: God is light, and there is no darkness at all in him. (6) If, then, we say that we have fellowship with him, yet at the same time live in the darkness, we are lying both in our words and in our actions. (7) But if we live in the light—just as he is in the light—then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from every sin. (8) If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and there is no truth in us. (9) But if we confess our sins to God, he will keep his promise and do what is right: he will forgive us our sins and purify us from all our wrongdoing. (10) If we say that we have not sinned, we make a liar out of God, and his word is not in us.
(1) I am writing this to you, my children, so that you will not sin; but if anyone does sin, we have someone who pleads with the Father on our behalf—Jesus Christ, the righteous one. (2) And Christ himself is the means by which our sins are forgiven, and not our sins only, but also the sins of everyone. (3) If we obey God's commands, then we are sure that we know him. (4) If we say that we know him, but do not obey his commands, we are liars and there is no truth in us. (5) But if we obey his word, we are the ones whose love for God has really been made perfect. This is how we can be sure that we are in union with God:
Years ago, I read that and the last part of verse five jumped off the page at me! I KNEW that I WAS NOT in Union with HIM!
It was describing my life!
I lived in darkness but claimed to be in the light.
Anyway, I have to dig deeper and deeper today for the remainder of the trench to my two car garage so I can be one step closer to burying my electrical lines.
I pray that you also GO DEEPER today.
Have a blessed day.
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