This morning in my time of devotions, I ended it working in my Experiencing God material.  I am in Unit 11 which is Kingdom Work.  A key word is brought forth in the five lessons of this unit.  It is KOINONIA. It is translated to mean “intimate fellowship”.  Most of us with church backgrounds have heard this term off and on in our lives.  The lessons I’ve completed brought forth Light for which I know God has been wanting me to see for some time.

I’ve already written about my journey from July 31, 2016 until today journaling to God rather than to Jesus.  God had wanted me doing this He said so I could better know Him.  In so doing, I’ve found a relationship with God my Father that is just what koinonia is all about–intimate fellowship.  I have found God to be trusting, loving, kind and ever filled with mercy for his creation–all of man which includes you and me.  What was brought out in these lessons of Unit 11 is the connection between God and Christ’s intimate relationship.  It is to mirror the relationship I have with both of them.

As I’ve spent the past year building a fellowship with God, I’ve found Him to be everything I’ve always been shown Christ is.  However, the connection that I had truly missed personally was the Almighty, All-Powerful part.  I knew Christ embodied all the loving characteristics so fully brought out in the Gospels.  I had this misconception that my own personal abuse meant those loving characteristics of Christ were nice but not very powerful or He would have done something better to stop them for me.  I knew in my head I needed to have a relationship with God and Christ but I wasn’t worth much of their Power.  Spending a year with God in my journal has taught me–shown me that God is equally as intimate and loving as His Son.  In addition, His Almighty Power is some of the substance of their love.  The fact of choice I’ve recently mentioned is proof.  It takes their Almighty Power to allow man to continue to have his power of choice even when it is abusing God’s creation.  God uses His Power to create a different pathway for His kids to find Him.

Now this morning I felt God bringing all of this together for me.  Yes, He sent Christ to redeem us and create a pathway for our eternal fellowship with Them.  Also, He wants us to take this intimate fellowship they have and we have to those He is prompting us to connect with.  The world does not know all of this about them and us.  There is a world of men and women, young and old, who are lost in sexual confusion called homosexuality.  God is asking me to not be afraid of this but to join Him in helping remove the confusion man has given this area of temptation.  I will take steps in this as God opens the door to do so.  “Be strong and take courage….” Joshua 1:9.