Many SMALL conversations lead to one BIG picture when youre talking with a HUGE God

God it’s the beginning of the year so I want to put a plan together with you for the business.

Good.

Can I expect immediate answers the way you tell me I can?

You can.

God?

Mark you know you can hear me.

I sure hope I’m not making this up God?

You’re not, you know you’re right on target.

Ok. Alright, so this year God, what do you want me to achieve?

I want you to make a whole bunch of changes.

God? I’m not sure you said that?

Mark it’s what I said.

Ok. Can you explain?

Yes. I want you to stick with the track you’re on in each of the most important areas in your life; your new life with Miri, the business, your book and your home; and yet I want you to be ready to make changes in direction as I give them to you.

I’m still not seeing an overview here though God, are you saying there are big changes coming?

No.

Come on God? You’re just saying that because you know I don’t really like big changes!!

Not at all.

Ok what then?

I’m saying there’ll be lots of little tweaks and corrections as you listen to me.

God this is getting a bit frustrating! I’m here talking to you so we can make a BIG business plan for the year, can you explain this a bit more please?

Yes of course. You’re seeing it already with Miri. She’s sensing she needs to listen to me day by day to get the direction I want for her – small daily increments of direction from me for large long term subjects. She doesn’t NEED to of course, I would happily accept her living by her own reckoning and decisions. Most Christians live that way and I readily accept it – but I’m keen to see you both live by the message you’re spreading. I want to see you explore it far deeper. Having explained this listening to me life to others, the next stage is to explore even further what a life like that really looks like.

I want you to experiment, to find out first-hand what it looks like to live the life you’re advocating. You’re going to be surprised.

Pleasantly or not?

Very pleasantly. More pleasantly than you could possibly imagine.

Arrrgh God I’ve come to you for direction for the business. What are you actually saying?

Mark you just saw it, you just heard it as a concept. I’m saying to listen, more and more. I want you to become obsessive about it, and to do it about EVERYTHING. That’s the goal, not a business goal, nor a home or leisure or relationship goal. Instead an overall goal – to listen to me, obsessively and fanatically until it commands your entire life. And in that listening, in conversation with me, you will learn what to do next, time after time, in all the areas that matter to you, and to me.

God I’m seeing that this is going to make me feel like I’m a bit directionless. My ‘big picture’ won’t be as big. Well I suppose it will be in a manner of speaking – my big picture will be little conversations, often and always with the big God. Hah! I get it now God!! I’ll be looking at the ‘BIG PICTURE’ all the time won’t I?  Your picture. I’ll be seeing more and more of your picture for my life simply by remaining in back and forth discussion with you more and more of my time.

Yes Mark. What do you think that’s going to mean?

Well… I guess it will mean that I appear a little crazy, a little mystic and separated from the reality of the world God. Which, btw, is a concept I’ve always hated. I HATE the idea of Christians with their heads in the cloud and a diminished ability to relate to and play their part in the real world.

Yes well that’s where you’re going. You’ll sometimes feel that you are not connected to the day to day requirements of reality, but in actual fact you’ll be more connected to reality than ever before because the inventor of reality will be in back and forward conversation with you more and more frequently.

God so you’re REALLY REALLY saying to stop trying to form big plans, and instead to have the LITTLE conversations with the BIG GUY?

That’s the long and the short of it Mark. And yes I really did just use that turn of phrase, I really did just say ‘the long and the short of it’. Does the fact that God would talk that way seem too familiar for your religious mind? Hmmm; consider this verse for a moment and read it out to Religion… ‘because you are my nearest kinsman’. You can’t get any more familiar than a nearest family member.

God I’ve looked that up and it wasn’t really talking about you. It was more about Boaz in the story of Ruth.

No but the analogy is there. Look for other verses and write them down here.

Ok God well it turned out there were heaps of verses and commentary about you being our kinsman. Stuff I didn’t even know about.

Exactly.

But God this is the one that stood out. I’m glad I found it because I was starting to think I might be making that part up.

‘I know that my REDEEMER [‘GAAL’ kinsman] lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth.’ Job 19:25

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