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MOUNT PO-PO-KAT-A-PE-TEL

We believe that more than 9,999 Christians out of 10,000 relate to God in one of the following incorrect ways:

They relate to God "long distance". That is, they envision God as living way out beyond Mount Popokatapetel somewhere and that if they pray real long and loud and hard, that maybe God will hear them, and that may be, but less likely, the answer will get back. An old song says that Jesus leans out over the battlements of heaven and yells down the distance, "' Hold the fort, for I am coming', Jesus signals still. Wave the answer back to heaven, ' By Thy grace we will.'"

The other incorrect concept of God, (we shall see in a moment why these are incorrect) is that of "A little bitty God inside of a BIG person with still BIGGER problems." We invite Jesus to come into our hearts, and so He does, not as our very LIFE, in most cases, but as a sometimes-thought-of "Guest". (I don't like, nor will I say that prayer, "Come Lord Jesus, be our guest…") I don't want Him to be a guest, I want Him to come I as the Resident President, the Master, my very LIFE!!! But some of us, when we pray come I as the Resident President, the Master, my very LIFE!!! But some of us, when we pray Jesus hiding way down deep in our hearts somewhere, we get our own echoes back as if we were talking into a well. But God wants to be very Very VERY much more real to us than these.

As my friend, Chuck Dodge, says, "God has a consuming desire to make Himself real to us and to live His life through us. In order for Him to really become our Life, we need to correctly; and in order to relate to Him in a really healthy way, we need to know "The Secret"!