How getting in touch with God begins

When I planted onions this year, I was really amazed at how easy onions start to take root. All it took was for that dry little bulb to touch moist soil. And boom, two days later the first roots were starting to grow. Just the gentle touch of the earth is enough to set of a complicated process.

What if you were created with a similar ability? With the ability to touch God and that from that touch, just like with the onion, something starts to grow inside you?

You don't have to rub your body with earth (even though that's definitely healthy and can be really beneficial;-) ) or walk barefoot from now on (even though we don't walk barefoot much enough) to be connected to the energy of the earth.

No. Getting in touch with God is easy. And with him it works like this: we simply think it in our hearts and then say it to him – loudly or quietly: “I want you as my earth! I wish to be in contact with you”. Making this decision in your heart is important. Because we can say a lot, but not mean it seriously.

When this happens in your heart on a daily basis, something can begin to grow. Daily might sound exhausting to you now? I will try to explain why.

Planting good habits

I love gardening and if there's one thing I've learned, it's that it doesn't do a plant any good to dig it up every other day and leave it lying in the sun. The next day you plant it back into the soil. But by then the damage is done. No matter how good the soil is, no matter how much water you give it when you plant it, the plant will have a very hard time! Even if the plant does survive this constant procedure, it will quite definitely not turn out to be a remotely healthy plant.

You are like this plant and God is like your earth who gives you life and strength. That's why it makes sense to open your heart to God every day. Not because he needs you, but because you need him.

You often only notice its influence when it is absent. If you live uprooted, there are consequences. Sun and storm damage a plant much more when it is uprooted. Stress, bad events, fears, arguments, etc. do you much more harm when you live uprooted from God.

Every day that you don't care if he is with you has consequences: you have found no shelter and no nourishment with him. Among other things, His nourishment looks like this: He wants to give you love, joy, hope, peace - in the middle of a storm -, patience, perseverance, kindness, self-control. This is the God as the Bible describes him.

I used to wonder a lot why God feels so far away. I think it's like that for a lot of people every day. One reason - but not the only one! – is: I don't take the time every day to cultivate my relationship with this incredibly great God who loves me. And that because I don't view myself as dependent to him like a plant is to the soil.

If your relationship with Him is like a plant that is left unattended, is it any wonder that your prayers feel tedious and nothing "comes across" from God? Not surprisingly, then, the emergency planting trip feels more like stress to you. Incidentally, this also applies to all love relationships between two people.

But God would not be God if that overwhelmed him. He knows you. And unlike a plant, he still protects you even when you're not thinking about it.

Jesus says of himself that he is like a shepherd. He seeks the lost sheep and worries about it. And in this story the sheep thinks of real everything, except of the good shepherds.

Touching God - What it means to believe in God

It doesn't matter if you don't think about him all the time. But if you don't give a damn about God or what he thinks in your every day life then it's going to have a very big impact on your life.

I am convinced: it is very easy to touch God every day.

And it's not tiring. But with that God with you, it takes two things:

First, that you trust him: "you I can and want to get in touch with me."

Do you actually know that he really loves you passionately?

Second, that you accept: "I need you, God to come alive." Of course, you then first have to realize this: "I'm kind of as dead inside as an onion without soil, if you don't touch my heart.

Can you belive that?

"With you, God, is the source of my life, and in your light I see light" (Psalm 36:10).

I hope that today will be a day for you to get back in touch with him. Have a great day,

Anita