I want to step into a topic today as I blog I’ve not addressed before at least here.  I tend to write about what I’ve learned or find by walking and believing.  Yesterday as I was reading in the Bible I needed to make a choice about what Bible version I was going to now read since the day before I’d finished Revelation.  I chose to continue to read the Joyce Meyer Bible which is The Amplified version and the one Joyce has added her insights as well as personal stories relating to her walk with God.  I’ve read the Bible through many times now in my lifetime.  So doing this is not anything like a goal for me.  It is something I do to connect more deeply with God.

Today I’m reading about Satan’s manipulation of Eve and Adam in Genesis 3&4.  It says that when they did as Satan said they not only sinned, but Adam turned over control of the earth to Satan.  This is not new information, but today something hit me from this passage.  Adam and Eve had been walking with God and conversing with Him daily until this time.  They saw God.  As I began to process this, I put this along side the passages later when different men of God were told they could not see God’s face or they’d be destroyed.  Yet, in the beginning God and man were fully ok being face to face with each other.  There was no threat.  It was simply part of their intimate relationship.

My heart has longed to know God this way since I was a boy.  I would have instances where I’d think He’d shown Himself to me through circumstances.  But to see Him and know Him the way they did has always been a deep yearning.  As I asked God about this He brought to mind the verse from I Corinthians 13:12  “For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”  I’ve had this information given to me through sermons and scripture reading much of my life.  Today, however, it was like I read it for the first time with personal meaning and application.

This human side of us being so dominant and out of balance with our spirit is totally the result of sin.  However, the new creation Jesus makes in us when we accept Him into our hearts has the ability to see and know God much more like God intended.  The degree I trust God and believe all He tells me will determine to the extent He reveals more and more to me.  Boy, do I want to stick close to Him!