God wants an interactive relationship with us. He wants a relationship with someone who wants one with him. We’re all a big part of this.

The reason I know this is because he extended an invitation to us that calls for our participation. “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you” (Matthew 7:7).

Come on, God is God; he doesn’t have to do this. He could just as easily say, “Here’s what you get, here’s what you’re looking for, and this is where you’re going,” but instead he asks:

What do you want?
What are you looking for?
Where do you want to go?

It’s amazing to me that God wants to engage us in this manner. I’ve always got him so big and me so small as to be basically irrelevant. But here God is making us part of the action. He’s coming to our level. He’s involving us in the process. How about it? Could you answer these questions? I’m not so sure I could.

What do you want?
What are you looking for?
Where do you want to go?

Jacob once found himself wrestling with his fears all night and then realizing, half asleep and half awake, that he was wrestling with a form, and then a man, and then in the light of dawn, he saw the man’s face and it was the face of God. And a soon as he recognized this, he grabbed on even harder and said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

And God did.