God's Zone

  . . . in order to bring you to God. 

 - From 1 Peter 3

It is very important to God, that you be in a place where He can fellowship with you. 

God is a very happy person. He loves life. He loves creation. He loves the buoyancy of being with other intelligent and wonderful beings like Himself. 

People like us.

We have been fearfully and wonderfully made. We are in God's own image. He wanted people that He could relate to, and that could relate to Him. And He wanted there to be a growing, and infinite number of beings like Himself, to make the possibilities for wonder, joy and fulfillment to be infinite 

We all know what it's like to be part of a great team, or in a group of friends, or a family, that is highly functional. In sports it's called "being in the zone." In the world of music, one writer called it "The Inner Game of Music."

There is magic when we do things beyond ourselves, when we connect with others into new synergies. And when we reach for the highest point of knowledge, achievement, or morality, and attain it. It's a great feeling. You feel more alive than ever, and it is indescribable.

God wants that for us. Imagine being in God's Zone. 

So Christ went through an awful lot, to get us there. His job was to "bring us to God."

Wow. He had to go out, and in some cases, drag us to God, kicking and screaming. Because, for whatever reason, we prefer the pain, and misery, and death, of being apart from God. 

Whatever.

Some people choose the run away from God . . . towards death and frustration. 

In God's zone, there are no childish adults ruining a good thing. There are no stupid arguments. No broken families. No unfriending. No idiotic political campaigns. No disease and no discord over immunizations or organic diets. 

No forms of entertainment that glorify sex and violence. No people desperate to change who they are, neither surgically nor chemically.

In God's Zone, there are no wild shooters. 

Christ did what he had to do, to bring us there.