Before Jesus coming into the earth, the cross, and Penecost, man only had a outer relationship with God, a God to people relationship. Since then it is all an inner relationship with God. To go outside of yourself to look for God is like Jesus said would happen; the day would come when they say he is here or he is there, no he is in the desert. The problem is with trying to find God is he is not in any of those places, he is in you. If the HolySpirit convicts a sinner it will be an inner conviction, when a sinner believes their salvation will be inner. In the age of grace eveything is inner, inside you, nothing is outer. There may be outer things involved such as; God answering a prayer for something, but your relationship with the God head bodily will be inner.
Have you seen those that want to be super spiritual saints and will build alters to meet with the Lord, frivolous, a waste of time and shows a very deep lack of understanding on the believers part. You may have a prayer time set apart to pray same time everyday, that's nice you pray and nothing wrong with praying same time everyday, but don't think that the Lord has set his clock to meet you then at a certain time. Your life is a prayer, the very words you speak are a prayer, no wonder we are cautioned to watch what we say in idle times. Religion wants nothing to do with an inner relationship, why? because you loose all the fan fair and flesh pleasing of doing something to be spiritual. You dont light candles and swing a smoking flask and dress to the nines.
Inner relationship you just are. You are already spiritual you don't work it up, inner relationship you have moved from doing to be, to a knowing. Paul said "I know in whom I believed." The word believe opens to a sinner a brand new world, they become the same thing as the saint that has been in the lord for twenty years. They will not have the knowledge yet but they are fixed the same instantaneous. That is the cross, the cross is the starting place of all any believer will ever be, as they grow in grace and knowledge, it will be the ending place as well. The cross will never leave the equation of your life because it all started with you being crucified with Christ, Hallelujah!
Galatians 2:20,
20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Have you seen those that want to be super spiritual saints and will build alters to meet with the Lord, frivolous, a waste of time and shows a very deep lack of understanding on the believers part. You may have a prayer time set apart to pray same time everyday, that's nice you pray and nothing wrong with praying same time everyday, but don't think that the Lord has set his clock to meet you then at a certain time. Your life is a prayer, the very words you speak are a prayer, no wonder we are cautioned to watch what we say in idle times. Religion wants nothing to do with an inner relationship, why? because you loose all the fan fair and flesh pleasing of doing something to be spiritual. You dont light candles and swing a smoking flask and dress to the nines.
Inner relationship you just are. You are already spiritual you don't work it up, inner relationship you have moved from doing to be, to a knowing. Paul said "I know in whom I believed." The word believe opens to a sinner a brand new world, they become the same thing as the saint that has been in the lord for twenty years. They will not have the knowledge yet but they are fixed the same instantaneous. That is the cross, the cross is the starting place of all any believer will ever be, as they grow in grace and knowledge, it will be the ending place as well. The cross will never leave the equation of your life because it all started with you being crucified with Christ, Hallelujah!
Galatians 2:20,
20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.