Being Conscious of God  

     The disciple Peter - after the resurrection, after he knew to follow the Spirit rather than his own inclinations - wrote: "It is commendable...to be conscious of God" (1 Peter 2:19). 

     How do we do that? Don't we have to wait for him to appear someday...in Jerusalem? 

     Where did the author of Hebrews get this idea? "Whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him" (Hebrews 11:6). 

     Seek him? Where is he? Abraham met him. Moses also. He spoke into the minds of prophets. David knew him. 

     Is that it? Two thousand years and counting. Silence? Demons running loose?

     Hold on. The night sky lights up with the "glory of the Lord." Angels reveal to lowly shepherds that "a Savior has been born in the town of David. He is Christ the Lord."   

     Isaiah (chapter 9) wrote of this centuries earlier. 

     He grew up conscious of God. He is God. He taught his disciples and healed the people. Painfully, He gave his life, a "lamb" sacrificed for the sins of the world. He "was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father."

     He provides the Holy Spirit to all who believe. We become conscious of God. Daily. Hourly. "Newness of life" (Romans 6:4). 

     "For God so loved the world that He gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16).

His invitation is not indefinite.