As a child, I was blessed my Grandparents lived right down the street. I would run down to their house after school or on weekends. While Grandpa loved to tinker in the garage, Grandma loved sitting on the porch to “chitchat” as she called it. Chitchatting was catching up on what was new; it was having a simple conversation that had no agenda, time limit or controversy. It was devoid of judgment, obligation or duty. Chitchatting could be about anything on your mind.
God wants us to have the same type of conversations with Him. Simple day to day chitchat. A conversation catching up, talking about our day, what is on our minds, work, family, future dreams. He wants to hear it all because He loves us.
The dictionary defines chitchat as small talk. God is not looking for us to commune with him only on the big stuff or in crisis situations, he wants our communication to be small talk too.
Talking to God is as easy as daily conversation about everything. He does not mind if you ask him hundreds of questions, I know because I ask a lot of questions and He answers them all.
God is a great listener! He is attentive, does not interrupt, is never pulled away by the cares of this world; television, radio, social media, work, or the busyness created by overbooked schedules. He is always there, always ready to listen and respond and is always FOR us! Doesn’t that make you feel empowered. It is the kind of love and support that fuels us into BELIEVING we really can do all things through Christ who strengthens us.
God wants our relationship to be so close and personal that we are One with Him. He knows our desires, our thoughts, our situations. He knows everything we are going through. Why wouldn’t we want a close personal relationship with the one who loves us the most.
Peter assures us in 2 Peter 1:15-21 – that the truth of God’s Word, if we receive it, will make us free (John 8:32). Peter knew Jesus personally, he heard the audible voice of God that came out of heaven saying “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him” (Matt 17:5). If we receive the truth of God’s Word it will make us free!
In 2 Peter 1:19 Peter shares there is an authority that he is basing his teachings on that is even greater than the things he saw and heard with Jesus:
“We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.”
Peter spent 3 years walking and talking to Jesus, yet he shares that the one thing that surpasses all of his experiences in the physical with Jesus is having the written Word of God.
Our faith comes through the Word by revelation of the Holy Spirit (Romans 10:17). It is better than physically walking with Jesus. We can know God better through the revelation of His Word than a physical manifestation.
The disciples didn’t know Jesus the best until after his resurrection. Paul knew Jesus better than any of the other apostles did through the revelation of God’s Word (2 Cor 5:7). The scripture was divinely inspired and is the same for us today.
The more time we spend in the divinely inspired Word of God getting revelation from the Holy Spirit the more we know God. The more we know God, the more we recognize His voice and the closer we are to Him. When you have a close relationship with God you want Him to be a part of everything in your life. So pull up a chair and chitchat with God.
“To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice; and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.”
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