Supernatural

God has designed his children to experience the supernatural, but since God is just, I also believe that the knowledge of God is what allows us to live out experiences that confirm God's presence in our spiritual walk.

God longs for us to know Him just as He is, not only for His divine qualities. Theology must be embodied in the personal God who deals with each one of us. But, do we deal with God, do we listen to His voice, do we walk with Him?

When Job understood God's purpose for his life—after passing that terrible trial that God put him through to test his faithfulness—he could say with joy: “My ears had heard of you, but now my eyes have seen you” (Job 42:5). The meaning of this beautiful affirmation from Job is the following: I had heard about You, of Your power, of Your love, of Your faithfulness, of Your grace, but now, despite everything, I have truly come to know who my God is. I have experienced Him in my misfortune and in my suffering; I have claimed His care, and even though I have been angry with Him, even though I have protested about my condition and all the things I have gone through, now everything I have lived has made me know You, see You with my own eyes, and see the manifestation of Your presence in my life in a real way.

Job praised God and said, “I know that my Redeemer lives… and that in the end he will stand upon the dust” (Job 19:25). One can only make this affirmation when they have experienced the supernatural manifestation of God in the Christian life, when we know Him personally just as He is.

If anyone perceived the supernatural in his life, it was Moses. Moses was the man chosen by God to free His people from slavery in Egypt. When he felt God's call for that mission, he said to Him: “Please, Lord, I have never been an eloquent man. Neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech and tongue” (Exodus 4:10). But the Lord told him that he was the leader, that he and his brother Aaron would guide His people to the promised land, and Moses said to Him: “If your presence does not go with us… do not send us up from here” (Exodus 33:15). And here we see Moses demanding God's supernatural mantle to do the work and carry out the mission.

We do not always experience the flow of God in our walk; sometimes it seems as if God has withdrawn, and that is when our faith is put to the test. As the hymn we like so much says (Alaba a Dios), “…when He is silent, it is because He is working.” Yes, it is true, perhaps that is so, but the truth is that God's silences do not always mean that God is working. God wants us to live committed lives, to strive to know Him, to seek His face, to be consumed by seeking His presence, because God also sees when we are unfaithful, when we do not long for Him, when we do not seek Him. And then He steps away, He stays silent to provoke in our being the need for His help, for His comfort; so that we feel that without Him, we have no true joy, peace, or refuge.

And what about the church as a body of believers that seeks the manifestation of the Spirit in each of the faithful? What do we have to do so that His face and heart are drawn to us and revive us from our apathy and infidelities? Could it be that there is some golden calf hidden in the courts of His church? Could it be that God is waiting for us to take a step of faith? Could it be that we do not know Him enough on a personal level and as the body of Christ; that we are not capable of hearing His voice, of correctly discerning as a church our need for divine provision? Could it be that we are not working with wisdom from on high, understanding that He expects from His children—temples of the Holy Spirit where the God of Israel dwells, the anointed of God, Jesus Christ, the Redeemer and Savior of the world—commitments, total surrender, a longing for His word, and a search through prayer?

I am convinced that God wants to bless the Church, but we need to settle our accounts with the Lord, personally and as a body. I do not believe that God is waiting for temples to be built—made by human hands—to glorify Himself. God does not limit His grace to the dimensions of the courts of His church. What God wants is submission, humility, and a search for His presence.

Jesus wants us to be reconnected with Him; He longs for us to have experiences with a Father who has manifested Himself in His son Christ for our good, so that our soul praises Him, and our spirit embodies the truth that we are children of the Most High and that nothing and no one can separate us from His love.

God bless His Word!