The Walk

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I knew a lot about you… but then I began to walk beside you… and that changed everything.  The facts I thought I knew were really rather irrelevant to the newfound relationship.  You were who I knew but yet had never imagined.  You and me became we… and it is joyous.  

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I’m reading a book by Jake Colsen called, “So You Don’t Want To Go To Church Anymore.”  The title caught my eye a week or so ago because… I don’t really want to go to church anymore.  Then, Annee, in a totally unrelated way, suggested the book to me, so I figured God was trying to get through my dense skull.  Then, just to ice the cake, I found the book online… for free… in pdf.  Anyhow, to make a long post even longer, the concept of knowledge about God verses a relationship with God was pitched in the book.  In a conversation amongst the main characters, one of them said,

“We teach the kids (in church) about God and the Bible, and how to be good Christians… but this is not the same as learning to walk with him.”

Shoot, I have a Masters degree in God stuff.  I can bust a biblical move in Greek, go to town about the missionary journeys of Paul, talk theologically until my TULIPs fall off, or whatever… BUT SO WHAT.  None of that matters.  None of it matters if there is no relationship, and even more, none of it matters COMPARED to the relationship.

I know a lot about President Bush, but I bet it would be a whole other kick in the pants to actually be his friend… and sit on the back porch… drinking tea… talking shop… laughing… going deep… crying… caring… making up goofy words… 
Insert whoever you want there.  You know some stuff about them, but wouldn’t it just be trippin’ cool to actually be their good friend?  Right?

Now, apply that to God.  

Skip the facts.  Go for the relationship.

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