Dinner date with God

Have you ever wondered why it is that we have the ability to make so much time for the people we have in our lives, the beautiful, tangible relationships that God has blessed us with here on earth and given us as a gift to mirror our relationship with Him, but yet for some reason the concept of putting time aside to spend with God, our Creator and our Maker, just seems like a mentally and physically impossible task! Why does spending time with the tangible relationships we have in our lives come more naturally? But yet, to put time aside for a simple 'dinner date with God' seems so unnatural? We visit friends over copious cups of coffee, we spend lazy days at the beach with our families, we go out on dinner dates with our boyfriends and husbands...I could go on but I think you get the picture?

For some reason, making time for God is just not an easy task, especially when you have so much on your plate and so many of life's daily responsibilities! Maybe there is something about the way we live our lives today that's unnatural...nothing about this life seems natural to me, not even the food we eat! It's a constant mental and physical struggle! But its so important to fight for time with God, weather it means unplugging the phone, or putting your mobile on silent for a few hours...arranging child care if you need to, or staying up when everyone is asleep...its well worth it! He makes it worth it!

I needed God to be more tangible, more real in my life, and by setting time aside, and having these little 'dinner dates with God' I feel I have become far more captivated by His beauty. It is rich. It is good. And in order to peruse intimacy with God you will no doubt have to fight for it. You will need to fight the busyness. Youll need to fight accusations. And so much more.

I've come to realise that the more we come to know God truly, as He is, the more we come to know ourselves truly, we become who He created us to be. As God reveals His identity to us, he also reveals our own identity to us.
In Him we find contentment.
In Him we find true reflections ourselves.

"Give thanks to the LORD,
call upon his name,
make known his deeds among the peoples,
proclaim that his name is exalted.
Sing praises to the LORD, for he has done gloriously;
let this be made known in all the earth.
Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,
for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel."
Isaiah 12: 4-6