| Summit, MS is small. Seriously small. Population 1,651 souls. Growing up in Summit probably mirrors other small towns. Everyone knows everyone and all their “business.” My Dad knew what I had done on a Friday night before I even got home.
Small towns have some advantages. Connecting with others doesn’t require much effort. As a boy, I just looked for the bikes. As I got older, I went to the places where everyone else hung out. Eventually I would run into all the people I knew.
Today, we have a whole industry for connecting. Social media exists to expand our connections. The breadth and variety of our “friends” has never been larger. We even have people we don’t know “requesting” to connect with us. A TV show just started on what would happen if God tried to “friend” us. Funny. Are all these social media friends really intimate friends? Is this our idea of a connection?
Connecting with God requires more than accepting a friend request. See, God wants to be more than our friend. He wants to know us intimately. And for us to know him intimately as well.
What are you doing to connect with God? Is He your acquaintance? Do you say hi to Him and tell Him about your day, much like when you check in with your parents? Or do you seek to know Him, asking Him to reveal His character and His will to you daily?
God gave us many ways to connect with Him on an intimate level. He gave us His Word. Through it we can seek to understand His character and ask Him to reveal more to us. He gave us His people, His church. We can surround ourselves with others who also want to know Him intimately, allowing the Holy Spirit to work in and through them. We pray and speak with Him. A constant conversation, opening our hearts, allowing Him to take over, and seeking his guidance.
What are you doing to connect with God? Try it. He’s the most important “friend” you will ever make.
Join us this week at Prodigal. We are a bunch of broken people searching for God’s purpose for our lives.
This week, Sean brings a message of how we improve our contact with God and Judy Z will share an impactful testimony.
When: Every Saturday at 5:30 pm
Location: The Fellowship (in the Loft), 22765 Westheimer Pkwy, Katy, TX 77450
Childcare is available. Pre-notification is not necessary but is requested. For more information about childcare, email us info@theprodigals.org.
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Come home, prodigals! |
