You are created for a close personal relationship with the Godhead

 

 

In the beginning, God created…man, mankind, or humanity.

 

He created a male and spent time with him.

 

By bringing every living creature before him, he showed the male that he was unlike anything created by God.

 

He put the male to sleep, removed a rib, and created a companion. The male called her woman.

 

God spent time with them, and everything was perfect.

 

Then temptation arrived and tripped up the woman. She heard a lie and believed it.

 

She told the lie to her companion, the male, and he chose to follow her.

 

For this reason, the male carries the blame for separating the relationship between God and man, or mankind, or humanity.

 

Through the process of time, humanity began to call out to God. He listened and answered.

 

There were periods when individual people got close to God.

 

Enoch,

 

Moses,

 

Abraham,

 

David.

 

But the close personal relationship with God remained broken.

 

Behind the scenes, in the halls of heaven, the triune God was working on a plan to restore the broken relationship with his creation.

 

Through the process of time—as humanity understands time—the plan came to fruition.

 

Jesus was

 

born,

 

lived,

 

walked,

 

taught,

 

made disciples,

died,

 

rose from the dead,

 

instructed the disciples,

 

and returned to heaven.

 

Before his departure, he promised his return to retrieve what belonged to him.

 

 

Jesus was the plan to restore humanity to a close personal relationship with the Godhead.

 

 

His disciples conveyed the message of a restored relationship, causing large numbers of humanity to follow them.

 

God’s adversary—the devil—distorted the process by suggesting rules and regulations to get close to God.

 

Religious orders were established based on the specific beliefs of various rules and regulations.

 

The deception worked and continues today.

 

 

In the beginning, it was simple. God talked with man, then with the man and the woman, and they talked with God.

 

 

On several occasions in the life of Jesus, while in conversation with people, he openly spoke to God.

 

This was unheard of.

 

The religious leaders would offer open prayers, but Jesus conversed with his Father while in conversation with others.

 

Why would he do that?

 

 

In one place—at the tomb of Lazarus—he said he openly spoke to his Father so those around him would know that his relationship with God was real. (John 11)

 

In another place—when his disciples returned from a short-term mission trip—in his excitement, he spoke out to his Father his pleasure for their excitement. (Luke 10)

 

 

How could he do that?

 

 

You could answer this question by saying he is the Son of God, and that would be true, but it would not answer the question.

 

Jesus could do this because he exhibited a pre-adamic fall close personal relationship with God.

 

 

The Bible says Jesus got up before daylight to find a private prayer place.

 

It says he ended his ministry sessions by finding a quiet prayer place.

 

The stories of his talking to God in public meant he was thinking about his Father.

 

In other words, Jesus practiced a close personal relationship with God in the same manner as God’s chosen creation in the garden before the sinful fall.

 

 

A close personal relationship with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit starts with a desire.

 

It continues with determination.

 

It grows with a commitment, and it flourishes with a passion.

 

 

 

A close personal relationship with the Godhead is needed now more than ever.

 

A close personal relationship with the Godhead is a journey. I invite you to follow along. I will pass it along as I learn so you, too, can learn. I hope that as you learn, you can pass it along so that I (and others) might learn.