Why do people want to grow up? Once you’ve grown up all the fun is gone, everybody worries and gets all serious when there’s so much more to life. I don’t think God ever intended for us to loose that spirit and life. We are even required to have a child like faith, believing in things that no ‘respectable adult’ would believe in. At the same time we should be growing as people, getting wiser and knowing how to deal with certain situations. To be wise and yet have that kid inside always ready for anything and excited about life, that seems to be the formulae that we should grow with.

We see it in those so called soppy movies, we hear it in the songs we listen too but we don’t do it. We smile, get a warm fuzzy feeling and move on. That’s so sad. We miss the crux of what’s going on. It’s like walking through life looking at this beautiful world and saying, wow this is one amazing accident. Huh? You just don’t get it. One question people always ask Christians is, “What about those people who never heard about Jesus?” Jesus is everywhere, he’s God! He made this world and is apart of its movement, he’s the air we breath, he is love, life and everything. How can you not hear the message? It’s screaming at you from all angles, yet some just don’t get it. And those Christians who are nodding and saying, he’s right, they just don’t get it. We don’t get it either! We try and God loves that we do, but we will never fully understand him. He’s infinite.

If we really got it, this thing that screams – God is right here, he loves you with everything and wants you to know him more, we wouldn’t sin. We wouldn’t be able to. I’ve often read the Israelite’s journey and thought, how can they be so stupid? God is right there, doing miraculous things every day and yet they just don’t get it. Moses disappears up a mountain for a few days and they freak out. They decide to pray to a golden statue! You read that and think, these guys are so stupid – God is right there showing them with visible, undeniable miracles that would knock the socks off anybody and they just don’t get it. Are we so different?

We sing and shout and praise God with everything we have and we feel his awesome love. We know, that we know, that we know that he is right there and we feel untouchable. But the next day, it fades and soon we forget about his love. The monotony and continuation of life makes it fade. God is right there, he’s with you every step of the way but you don’t acknowledge him. He becomes an idea when he was so real, until your next encounter with him. It’s seems so wrong but it’s what we do, it’s what I do.

So what do you do? I’m talking to myself as much as anybody else, but I think the key is spending more time meditating on the word of God – who he is. Through real people’s stories God has shown us himself. So we read them, again and again. As we read God reveals himself in different ways. You stop and think, hey why did he do that? As Rob Bell puts it, you ask questions which lead to more questions, those lead to more answers with more questions. It goes on forever because God is infinite. But as you learn more, you love God more. You understand things more. You try harder to do or not do certain things. You appreciate life more and you’ll find that you just don’t get it. So you carry on, and eventually what seemed like work becomes pleasure. You can’t wait to get home and read God’s word. You want to talk and discuss God more and more. You find other conversation lifeless without God being the centre of it all. You fall in love with Him again every day.

In this way we learn, we grow and although we may never get it – we know we’re on the right track to understanding who God is. The “I AM.”