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    30 First Dates with God -- a Devotional
    30 First Dates with God -- a Devotional
    30 First Dates with God -- a Devotional
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    30 First Dates with God -- a Devotional

    By Stephen Meyer

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    Christianity is unique in that we usually agree to a long-term relationship with God before we even get to know Him. It is like getting married and then going on a date! This devotional explores some of the characteristics and attributes of God in an effort to know Him better. If you enjoy this, please consider donating to the Daisy Project for street kids of India daisyprojectindia.org/give.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStephen Meyer
    Release dateApr 30, 2015
    ISBN9781310809736
    30 First Dates with God -- a Devotional
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    Stephen Meyer

    I am a lifelong Christian and youth ministry volunteer for over 20 years. My passion is to connect followers of Jesus with Him through the power of the Holy Spirit. This is my first book, and it's free because I want to reach as many people as I can with God's power. However, if you do enjoy the devotional, please consider making a donation to The Daisy Project to reach the street children and families of India with the Gospel -- https://daisyprojectindia.org/give/.

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      30 First Dates with God -- a Devotional - Stephen Meyer

      INTRODUCTION

      It is a common thing to say that you know someone, even if that person is a complete stranger to you. Our society’s craving for insight into the lives of celebrities and famous people is driven by our desire to know them. However, our knowing is little more than a collection of facts (or fabrications!) and anecdotes that really shed no light on who that person truly is. We routinely claim to know people who are extremely distant and who would not know us in the least.

      We also claim to know co-workers, neighbors, and extended family members. Relationships with these acquaintances or casual friends have more depth than that of a celebrity, but often do not cross very far beyond superficial, personal information. Deeper still is our knowing of friends and immediate family. These relationships involve knowledge of private thoughts and experiences, hopes, fears, etc., that are only revealed in closeness and trust.

      Finally, there is the spousal relationship, in which – hopefully – nothing is secret. Two lives merge into a shared existence and the knowledge of each other is equally known and intimately detailed. Each partner knows what the other desires out of life, and they work together to achieve these goals.

      Such a relationship is what God longs to have with each one of us. He wants us to truly know Him, so that we will live a passionate life in which we are driven to serve Him completely, not out of some religious obligation or fear, but because we share the same goals and desires in life and want to pursue them together.

      So how do we get to know God? Well, for those of you who are or were married, how did you get to know your spouse? Did you just walk up to him or her and say Let’s get hitched!? Or, was it a process of dating or courting in which you steadily learned more and more about one another with increasing depth? In the same way we can get to know God, which is the purpose of this devotional.

      I entitled this book 30 First Dates with God because a date is essentially nothing more than a time to get to know someone better and establish a deeper relationship. Dates are usually in a relaxed setting and are centered around conversation where we reveal parts of our lives and who we are to one another. God inspired me to therefore go on 30 dates with Him, which were nothing more than me asking each morning for God to reveal something about Himself, and then spending the day talking to Him about it and thinking of what it means to me and my life. I did not pray for hours or read page after page in my Bible. I simply talked with Him as one person talks to another, with the sole purpose of getting to know and understand Him better.

      I pray that you can enjoy the same experience that I did, and that through this devotional, you can get to know God in a much more real, meaningful, and life-altering way.

      Day 1

      I am holy.

      Holiness is a completely foreign concept to us. How can we possibly understand what it means for a being to be so unique and different that the being becomes sacred and awe-inspiring. So it is with God. He is not just unique or different. Rather, He stands alone as the only being of His kind, and we have nothing to which we can compare Him. Everything in our universe has some other thing to which we can compare it, whereas there is no thing to which we can compare God. For this reason alone - this utter and complete individuality - we should regard Him with reverence and awe.

      God’s holiness requires us to treat Him with the greatest respect, and such respect should be reflected in our attitude toward Him and our actions in His presence. Is our attitude careless when we attend church or a gathering where God should be the focus? Do we hold God in the highest regard

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