A Complicated Relationship

05/08/2008 - Our relationship with God is complicated. While it can be intimate as a parent's relationship with a child, there is also a sense in which God's holiness inspires an awe and a kind of distance that patriarchs respected - and that the Lord commanded:

"Then he said to Moses, 'Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. You are to worship at a distance, but Moses alone is to approach the LORD; the others must not come near. And the people may not come up with him.' "

So it might be wise to be wary of trying to establish a relationship with God that is too "chummy;" too informal; too casual. He is worthy of our praise. And He longs to draw us close to His heart.