God's Facebook

by Steve Klein

For those who are not familiar with it, Facebook is a very popular website.  Through Facebook, users can keep up with what is going on in the lives of friends and acquaintances.  Each person's Facebook page typically contains a photo of the person and the latest news in that person's life.  Facebook is now the largest social networking site on the internet and has more than 200 million members worldwide.  It's really just a way of keeping in touch with a lot of people.

God already knows what is going on in our lives.  He keeps up with us every moment. As David said, "You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. You comprehend my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word on my tongue, But behold, O LORD, You know it altogether" (Psalms 139:2-4).  If we are doing things we shouldn't, God knows that as well.   As He said of sinners long ago, "I remember all their wickedness; now their own deeds have surrounded them; they are before My face" (Hosea 7:2).

God wants us to keep up in touch with Him.  He wants to communicate with us about it what is going on in our lives, and He wants us to communicate to Him about it.  If our hearts are right, we will want to stay in contact with the Lord.  David put it this way in Psalm 27:8, "When You said, 'Seek My face,' My heart said to You, 'Your face, LORD, I will seek'".

We can allow God to stay in contact with us by learning His word; in this way we come to know Him face to face!  In 1 Corinthians 13, the apostle Paul informs us that when God's perfect word had been completely revealed, He would stop using temporary means of revealing Himself (such as prophecy and miraculous tongue-speaking).  Paul says, "When that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away." (1 Corinthians 13:10).  Through God's perfect word we can come to fully know Him. "For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known" (1 Corinthians 13:12).  It is in learning God's will for us that we can experience His presence daily in our lives.  The Psalmist says, "Make Your face shine upon Your servant, and teach me Your statutes" (Psalms 119:135).

We can keep in touch with God through prayer. The Lord calls upon His people to "humble themselves, and pray and seek My face" (2 Chronicles 7:14).  Daniel said, "I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications . . . (Daniel 9:3)

One of the great privileges of being a Christian is the ability that we have to keep in touch with God every moment.  Many men living in other times and places have not enjoyed such a privilege.  But the Lord made this promise concerning us: "I will not hide My face from them anymore; for I shall have poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel,' says the Lord GOD" (Ezekiel 39:29).

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