7349	Forums / Theology Forum / If You Must Assume...	on: June 09, 2007, 08:50:56 PM
This relationship that we share with Christ in this life is the most personal of all other relationships. When we go to Him in prayer we are going to the throne of grace. Because we are so deeply sinful, wounded and divided there is no other state of existence in this life where we are completely enabled than in His presence in before the throne of His grace. It is a throne where we are able to share in all honesty where we are at. What is our deepest desire? What is our greatest hope? What makes us the most afraid? How deep is our anger? In the grace room we are able to come with all our baggage. Here is where we are enabled to get to the bottom of that itch that will break us into an emotional basket case. This grace throne is where all of those secret things that are hidden from our discerning eye are known by Him and in Him is complete ability to deal with all of those secret things at His time and with His resources. We come to a God who knows us better than we know ourselves and is dealing with us in love so that we are healed by His intimate exposure by His disposition of always gracing us with confidence in our secret areas. God never gets up and walks out of the throne of grace. He is there always, so that we do not come to a Person who we are familiar with or that we think we can figure out. No we do not come trying to figure out His will, or leaving a laundry list, or using His compassion to get something that is important to us. We do not come to a person who has no feelings, or is ignorant of what we are going to go through in the future. We do not come to a Person who if we say the rite words then we will be blessed. No we come to a place where we can be what He created us to be, not what He can get from us. There is no ulterior motives with God. God is always truthful. So we can be what He created us to be at the most in the throne of grace. When we come to Him with our needs we are coming to ask from the bottom of our hearts. We are getting to the roots of our asking so that what petition we offer is Him dealing with us at the point of showing us our need and we agreeing with Him that we need grace. Because when we are doing what He wants us to do, we are able to be needy in the way He has designed us to be needy. He is not going to be misunderstanding about our deepest need, because He created us to come to Him and express those things. When we learn to open up in His presence and petition Him in this way, we are learning to trust Him in a way that no other person would understand. We will learn that all men are going to misunderstand these sensitive areas. Only God could be calm enough, and attractive enough in His compassion to receive us in a way that we will enjoy going to Him in that grace sensitiveness and pour out our hearts to Him. Unless our hearts are resting in Him we are always going to be searching for that place of rest. Unless we have found Him to be Fatherly we will always live in anxiety. He made us to find peace in Him.