Beholding the Father is not in competition with making disciples. The entire purpose of disciple making is to free the unbeliever into the realm of beholding the Father. We so often want to sell a new and better life where what we are really offering is the sitting in His presence. What can be more transforming than an afternoon with God? What can be more shocking than sitting in the presence of the mighty God. Who is this God? He literally shows Himself to us. This God actually lets us sit in his presence. What?
This is shocking. The mighty God literally beckons us to sit in front of Him, to dwell in His presence. This needs to be our cry to the world. We need to cry out come sit before the mighty God of israel and behold His beauty. Solve the sitting in His presence problem and we won't have to worry about the what really is a sin problem. It is absolutely true that we are called to do, to go make disciples of all nations. My heart is an absolute yes for that but for most of us the sitting in His presence is a fully foreign concept, something one might do before he eats food or goes to bed, but not something one might do for 9 hours on a Friday. Without beholding Him we are not ready to sing about Him or to tell others about Him for that matter. How will we tell them of His beauty if we don't know it for real in our core?
Tonight was a call to return to our first love, to sit before Him and behold Him. Nothing staggering when you are at ihop kc. Alter calls are for everyone here. But this one, this one. . . May this God give you the grace to sit before Him for hours at a time.
