Seeing God
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. Colossians 1:15 Until recently, I had been going through a bit of a dry season when it came to my relationship with God. Though in my head I knew that God never has and never will abandon me, my flawed and corrupted emotions often try to tell me otherwise- that when I sin, God turns His face away or that when I make a wrong decision God is shaking His head at me in disappointment. Often my instinct is to therefore turn away from God and give us both some time to “cool off”, as I would with a friend or a family member with whom I had argued or had conflict with. Though I could not see this at the time, looking back, I can see that my biggest problem was really that unlike with a family member or a friend, I cannot physically come to God in order to “make things right”. I cannot look Him in the face and see how He feels about me in the moment; I cannot see if I am coming at a “g