Better at Experiencing God

“This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord.
I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.”
Hebrews 10:16 (NIV)

In Christ, you are invited to experience God living in the human heart. That’s the key. That’s the aim. It’s the spiritual path to ensure faith and maturation. It’s how you and I can live our best lives. This is God’s ultimate will for us.

A better relationship with God is to experience God, which is when God writes His law on your heart and in your mind to face challenges and address deeply layered cultural and personal issues. This will only be possible when people who have experienced God can offer a faith that is based not just on what they know but on what they have themselves experienced.

The Bible was written to a community, Israel, for how Israel needed to understand their God and how they needed to relate to each other. This is why the Scripture does not say, “All men and women will know that you are my disciples if you have a certain amount of money,” or “a certain political persuasion,” or “if you are a certain gender,” or “if you are of a certain ethnicity.” No, it says, “All men will know that you’re my disciples if you have love one for another” because your spirituality is not based on your singular solitary sanctification, consecration, isolation, or theological reflection. No, we are not impressed with how deep you are if you are deep but do not obey God’s commandments to love your neighbor and love your enemy.  

If the Lord is living inside of you, you ought to be one of the most mercy-giving, grace-filled, compassion-extending people, and when people are around you, they ought to hear the truth of Jesus and not your opinion.

The future is going to be shaped by people who have matured beyond an adversarial conversation about the Bible and spirituality. There are people who are debating with you for the sake of debating, and you can tell them God’s honest truth and it won’t matter. And then there are other people who are debating because they have a strong opinion, but they are open to being taught something different.

A person who has experienced God never needs to debate with a person who nurtures their religion only as an intellectual construct, and that’s why the writer of Hebrews says God wants to relate to you not just cognitively, He wants to relate to you experientially—this is the Lord writing His law on your heart. The Lord wants a deep personal, internal connection with you where your heart is aligned with His will.