Nurturing Our Relationship With God
“There’s an ebb and flow in all relationships. There are times when I’m much more intimate with the Father, and times when I’m much less intimate with him. There are times when I feel like he loves me, and there are other times when everything in me denies that. Relationship with God is like a relationship with a person — it must be maintained and nurtured. It’s like a good garden — it’s got to be worked at if you want to keep it nice. If you ignore your relationship, it will cool off. If you work at it, it’ll warm up. And so it is in a relationship with God. Even though we often fall way short of representing Christ to the world in a positive way, that still doesn’t change our relationship with God. It may change our enjoyment of the relationship, but it doesn’t change the relationship from the Father’s point of view.”
John Wimber, Prayer: Intimate Communication (Anaheim: Vineyard Ministries International, 1997), 5-6.
