God, Blended into Your Relationship (Part 1)

This whole talk about love and relationships all started with God.

Then after everything else was created, man was created and placed in the Garden of Eden. Indeed, it was a single, unique, special world He created for man to dwell in: Eden. Of all the creatures God created, He didn’t take any special interest in any of them like He did with man.

Before the woman came into his life, God gave him a job – to till and tend the Garden of Eden – so he was gainfully employed. Understand that it is the work of your hands that God would bless. God also provided him with all he would ever need as food, peace, quietude, serenity, love, understanding and oneness of mind and purpose.

God then saw that “It is not good that the man should be alone” (Genesis 2:18). He then made him two great hearts beating alike, as one (Genesis 2:22). It was a perfect world. Now Eden was complete. Man was in charge of everything, and he had a companion, a partner, someone to help him in the discharge of his duties; and, above all, someone to love him and for him to love, someone of his kind. Eden was complete. His was a uni-world, full and leaving him contented.

There is this general belief in Christendom gotten from Genesis 3:8 that God usually comes down from Heaven in the cool of the day to have fellowship with the fist man and his wife, so let’s go with that. It is equally easy to assume that it was a daily or regular routine because from that Scripture, we see that they seem to have been expecting Him.

Now, “the cool of the day” is not necessarily early in the morning. It could be late in the evening. It could be one cool afternoon when the sun isn’t blazing, but is on recess behind some clouds. Indeed, it could even be during the hot afternoon sun. All God wants to see, really, is a ready mind or spirit. In other words, as long as your spirit is ready for Him, He is already there.

That’s because where two or three people get together in my name, there I am, right with them (Matthew 18:20, Spoken English New Testament).

So it must not necessarily, literally have to be when the weather is cool. Your spirit or readiness creates the atmosphere for God to come down to fellowship with you. The readiness of your spirit – the quietness of your spirit, ready to hear Him, ready to worship and fellowship with Him, ready to touch Him where He is, ready for His touch however you are – determines the weather and dictates the atmosphere. Your spirit gives God the invite, and He comes. This is why whenever you call, He answers. You don’t only call on Him early in the morning when you wake up, or just before dropping off to sleep at night, do you? If those are the only times you think of communicating with God, then you are not intimate enough, and you are missing out of a great deal.

So we presume that Adam and his wife had regular fellowship with God, and this is definitely something you should do with your spouse when you get married. Every married couple should imbibe the habit. God should be blended into your relationship. However, you shouldn’t say or think that because you are single now it doesn’t have anything to do with you. On the contrary, it is even far better now that you are single to build your fellowship life with the Lord.

There is a need for God to come – and at your invitation – to have fellowship with you. It is very like when you have a visitor and you sit on the sofa of your living-room and chatter away. God wants to come thus into your life, and hear you tell Him the nitty-gritty things that concern you. He wants you to engage Him in a chat about every matter. And then He wants to tell you what He thinks about them.

Yes, God wants to chat with you as you walk along the road, as you drive, as you shop, while you are at work, whatever it is you do with yourself. He wants to crack some jokes with you and listen to your jokes. Jesus wants to be in you as He is in God so that you are all truly blended together as one (John 17:23).

Why would you eventually need this kind of fellowship when you are married, as it was with Adam and his wife? Why would God come in the cool of the day to have fellowship with the man and his wife? The following are definite reasons for this, and applies to your relationship too, if you are in one already:

ü  So that you would come to truly know God.

ü  So that you would come to know the love of God on a deeper level.

ü  So that you would come to know that God is the Source of your existence.

ü  So that you would come to realise that without Him in the equation, without Him blended into your relationship, your relationship, your lives and existence is worthless, void, empty, a façade.

So as to keep your love and relationship flowing in the right direction.

I shall be pursuing this train of thought further when I come your way again next week. God bless you!