Getting To Know God Better 37

Are you a dabbler? Do you dabble with God?

I have found (through life experience and investigation) that not many people have any real interest in getting to know God better than they already do. We can thank the Church for that. The formula for organized Church to stay in 'business' quite often does not include igniting the fire of inner-man desire to seek and find more and more about God.

I would say that the modern Church teaches the same thing over and over again expecting different results. There is a sort of domination over the parishioners  from the pastorate/priesthood/rabbinical priesthood. Servant leaders are hard to find, but they are the truly loyal and under their teaching/guidance you will learn new things and find new ways to learn new things.

It is not difficult to ascertain the degree of token understanding that the modern person has concerning Christ when you look at what means most to organized Churches go through to sustain themselves. I know you don't want to hear it, neither do I, but today, men, women and children are mostly just barely trying to hang on to some tenuous belief system by a tattered tether. Week after week they go through motions of religiosity without the inner-man driving them. They have become wanderers inside the Church, not even looking for answers anymore, satisfied to be told that they are doing the right thing; hanging on by a thread to a concept of God and not God Himself.

There is no satisfaction under this premise, no forward movement, no advancing the Kingdom of God, no progress, no unction, and little light, if any being shown. The will to stand up and be recognized as a person who loves God and a person who is willing to go as directed has been replaced by organized programs designed to keep everyone in  a straight line. It doesn't matter if the real work doesn't get done as long as everyone involved feels good about it and they keep in a straight line. Because of leadership impotency it is easier to neuter the flock than to feed them.

If that is your current experience, get out or get in and change it. You are a child of God and have within you all that is necessary to complete the tasks that you can clearly see are being overlooked or ignored altogether. Drive yourself deeper into the Word of God and quit riding in the backseat. If you don't believe you have it in you or that you just aren't competent enough to do this or that it is not because God didn't give you the necessary tools, it is that you have decided not to use those tools.

Yes we are part of the Church, but first you are a child of God designed as an individual with a direct line to God through the inner man. Man/Woman up.

Joh_16:13  Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. 

Eph_3:16  That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;