Mountain Brook Baptist Church, Birmingham
Some years ago a Hungarian author by the name of Frigyes Karinthy published a volume of short stories that introduced the world to the famous theory of “Six Degrees of Separation.” The theory holds that our world has become so relationally interwoven that in spite of whatever physical distances may divide us, no one person is more than six relational steps away from knowing any other person. In other words, everyone knows someone who knows someone six times over. Of course, since the advance of Karinthy’s thesis our “wired world” has become even more interconnected so that those degrees of separation have probably already shrunk by a step or three.
However, when it comes to the most important relationship any of us can have, a relationship with God, the steps have been condensed to a single person, Jesus.
Jesus is the means by which God has reached out to His human creation. When we accept what God did for us in Jesus’ death and resurrection, we find all of the barriers between God and us torn away and we are able to know Him as God created us to do. There is actually “zero separation” and nothing separates us from God’s love in Jesus Christ (Rom. 8:39).
It may help to find someone who knows God and get that person to help you know Him too. In fact, people who already are in relationship with God through Jesus Christ are always excited to make those introductions. But you aren’t required to go through another person, no one other than Jesus; you simply open your life to God and invite Him to come in and He promises to do just that. No matter what you may have done or how you may have avoided Him in the past, God is merciful and compassionate and He is near to all who call on Him (Ps. 145:8–21). Call on Him today and you’ll never regret that you did.
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