One to one relationship with God

It is a Christian thing that we ought to have that personal connection with Jesus Christ to ‘feel God’. Unless and until we are able to see Jesus as a person, the one who is our personal saviour, we cannot entirely feel the awesome love God has for His subjects.

I think that’s what attracts me to Christianity. It is the casual and yet, all perfect kind of relationship with God. Being a convert, it is not difficult for me to conjure up the kind of God I want. As a grown up, I have more or less build the image of the kind of God I expect from errm…God?

Last Saturday, we have a session with Father Fabian and it dawned on me why I seem to be able to treat my faith with some cynic views, some childlike wonder and absolute trust. I wasn’t brought up as a Christian and hence, in my mind, there are no imprints of how God ought to be. God to me is what I want Him to be.

Maybe a lot of people will be looking in horror at the remarks. I saw some people getting really riled up because a Muslim woman said her relationship is one to one with God. Many people dissed her for being ‘lost’. They said religion has to have a set rules and not for us to ‘create any kind of God we are comfortable with.’

I think many people cannot get over the fact that they have lived their lives under strict scrutiny from their perceived God. They had done everything according to the law and hence, it riles them that there are ‘lost’ people like me or that woman who feel they have the exclusive attention from God. And we live with that kind of casual, relax attitude about our God. They feel shortchanged, maybe?

I don’t know what I am mumbling but in a gist, it means that we have to loosen our hang-up of God and make ourselves more available to Him than to approach Him with all the rituals, rites and laws.

Of course, I am not advocating setting up your own cult but rather, chill lah. Don’t confuse man made laws or political arm-twisting with the real God’s will for us.