THE DRAWING OF THE FATHER (1)

No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.  (John 6:44 KJV)

The hunger in our hearts to know God is not from us exclusively. God put it there. This is because we were created primarily to have a relationship with Him, and every relationship thrives on good fellowship. But the rebellion of Adam turned us away from that relationship. 

Jesus came at the right time to restore the connection to that relationship with God through His death on the cross. So He brought mankind back into that relationship on a legal basis. Just like we were not present when Adam sinned, but his rebellion implicated the human race because he was the human model. So also, Jesus died to represent the human race on the cross, so His death, burial and resurrection was on behalf of every human being. But it is not everyone that has accepted the gift of salvation. 

Those who has received the free gift of salvation, it is not so many that has fully grasped the truth and the goal of this precious gift. The goal is to have an abiding fellowship with the Lord, this is why He gave us the Holy Spirit to live in us. 

It is a pity that so many of God's children want Him only when they have a need or challenge. But prefer to spend time with everything else or everyone else when they want fellowship. Do you know that the desire to eat, or sleep or be with a friend or get involved in one activity or the other in some occasions is an indication that you are hungry for God? There are legit times that you are hungry to eat food or see a friend or desire to sleep, but my point is that there are some other times that we are hungry for God. But it is just that we didn't know what to fill that desire or longing in our hearts for something beyond what we just have, so we opt for the physical things we have in our world. 

There is a yearning in our hearts or a hunger within us to be closer to God. This hunger is in every human being because we are created to house God. Yes, we are created to be a habitation for God as well as to have fellowship with Him, if not we would have been created to be any other of God's creation. This drawing is a pull within us for something more than what we seem to have but we can't place our hands on because it is more than a physical thing.

For this reason, we come to Him whenever we have challenges or situations that are beyond us as we walk with Him. But God didn't create us to come to Him only when we have needs, He created us for His pleasure (Revelations 4:11). He created us to bring joy to His heart as we relate with Him.

 The goal of every intimate relationship is to be one with the person whom we are in relationship with. This involves a lot of other things to be in place. and at the end, there is joy, peace, happiness, communion, progress,etc. Those involved in an intimate relationship have one thing in common...a unity of purpose. If not it is deception and a waste of time. 

In order to achieve intimacy, there is always a need to stay away from the crowd, distractions, and stay alone with the one who loves you. This we should do often in prayers, fellowship, worship and in the reading/studying of the word.