Divine Exchange

Have you ever wondered if God was actually interested in your life?

Or maybe you know He’s interested but you don’t exactly know if he’s interested enough to know how you really feel, you know… about the things that kind of really matter to you but maybe in the grand scheme of things all the way up from His huge throne they don’t really seem like things we should bother Him with. Are our big stuff big enough to bother God with? Is He interested in having a conversation about the “little stuff”? Well, the thing is God is very much interested in having those kinds of conversations. God wants to converse about the smallest things with you. Down to what you should eat for dinner, or what kind of decor might go well with your sofa. He wants to be part of the big things and the smallest things in your life. He’s quite interested in all things that concern you.

To understand why that might be, it helps to understand your posture as a believer.

The word says in John 1:12:

“Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God”

This scripture reminds us that we are indeed children of God, we’re now God’s responsibility. Our upkeep, life, and all that we need just like any child are up to God. And I can tell you this much, God is the ultimate parent (Is 49:15, Matt 7:11). But I’d like to focus on the legality of the scripture, “..he gave the right..”. This is extremely important because the purchase of this right shows how much God wants to be close to us.

Before we could have the privilege of becoming children of God, the Lord had to send His son, Jesus, to die for us. He paid a costly price in His son to get us this legality. In the spiritual realm, when man fell, we lost all proximity to God. It was such a sharp cut-off, we couldn’t communicate with our maker, we were orphaned and incomplete. During these times all we could do was make temporary propitiation for our sins with the blood of animals. But nothing could ever do it. The sin was too great and man could never pay. God, however, though just, didn’t want this separation. John 3:16 said it loud and clear - “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life”. If I were to write it in Fola’s translation I would say “For the living almighty God, I AM, so loved the world that He gave His most precious gift, His son. That whosoever, literally anyone, believes in him will not perish but have everlasting life.”. It’s the price the lord paid that shows his dedication to relationship with us. Not only did He give His son as the propitiation of our sins. He took His time to do a complete work. You see God made the ultimate provision for our weakness. And he did it such that it would never have the power to cause separation between us and Him ever again. Jesus went all the way to the end of time to pay for our sins (Heb 9:26) both paying for our sins committed or would ever commit and empowering us, having been born again, by removing the sinful nature itself. God was so thoughtful, so detailed in His sacrifice. He wanted us. Now we are in a new covenant. A covenant, friend, is not a contract that can easily be broken. It’s bought with blood. And friends as you can see there’s power in the blood. In this new covenant, our posture is one of consistent harmony with our creator. He is as close to us as our next breath.

A God who makes all sacrifices to be in proximity with us is a God who wants all of us.

He is interested in it all, the little things, the small things, the big things. Present it all to Him, have conversation with Him - He desires to be an active participant in all things that concern you for His love is too deep, too wide, let Him in for He cares deeply for you.

God bless,

❤️ Fola.