I woke up this morning with this question in my mind: “What percentage of your life is lived without conscious contact with God?” Then these thoughts began to flow from me:

• Life without constant contact with the living God is an empty shell. Let that thought jell until it rings a bell.
• Religious words without heart contact with God are little more than a hollow thud. Without intimate, personal, ongoing, heart-to-heart interaction with the living God, routine religion is just ceremony and formality.
• Ongoing heart contact with God keeps me passionate about staying continually aware of His presence. It keeps me full of joy, wonder, and awe.
• Far too many Christians have Jesus as their emergency contact, but not as their best friend and closest companion.
• In the Bible Christianity is about staying in constant contact with Christ, not about hearing a weekly talk about Him. “In Him we live and move and have our being.” That’s why Jesus said “Abide in Me.”
• Without constant contact with God, we become obsessed with, controlled by, and identified by our own desires.
• Sermons that don’t lead to ongoing heart connection with God are promptly deleted from conscious awareness.
• Guilt causes people to avoid heart contact with God by hiding behind religion or avoiding Him altogether. Humbly and continually receiving His forgiveness opens the door to constant companionship with Him.
• To stay in constant contact with God continually focus on and obey the “still small voice” of “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
• Heart-to-heart intimacy with the risen Jesus is the most exciting part of being alive!

Religion tends
To talk about
God as distant
And live without
Constant contact
With His presence.
(Matthew 15:18.)

God’s desire is to “dwell among” (and within) His people, not occasionally, not weekly, but continually. Until we allow the blood of Jesus to continually consecrate us and keep us pure in heart, we won’t be able to concentrate on Christ’s continual presence but instead we’ll settle instead for occasional glimpses of His glory and live our daily life without Christ beaming continually in our consciousness.