Oh, we want Him there. But not too close. Not touching the precious pieces of our existence taped together, just barely in tact, teetering on the edge of disintegration. We know it's inevitable. Just a matter of time before it crumbles.
Let a hand come close to the treasured fragments, and we immediately assume defense. Don't touch that. Don't.
What we fail to see is that we, with our fragments ready to fall apart, need sustenance. We're relying on it at this present moment, or our breathing would long have ceased. And, when the cookie crumbles, where will we fall if He's not there to catch the pieces, to put us back together, to make us new? What will become of us if we stubbornly keep Him at away?
Yet it's not that we don't want Him. We just slip, slide so easily. Before we know it we've left His side.
"Who has the heart? With whom are our thoughts? Upon whom do we love to converse? Who has our warmest affections and our best energies? If we are on the Lord’s side, our thoughts are with Him, and our sweetest thoughts are of Him. We have no friendship with the world; we have consecrated all that we have and are to Him. We long to bear His image, breathe His Spirit, do His will, and please Him in all things." – {CCh 185.2}
Christ must be all in all to us. With Paul we must say, "For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified." (1 Cor 2:2) When Jesus is everything, we will live an entirely different lifestyle. Every breath will be a prayer of thanksgiving.
"If we are Christ’s, our sweetest thoughts will be of Him. We shall love to talk of Him; and as we speak to one another of His love, our hearts will be softened by divine influences. Beholding the beauty of His character, we shall be “changed into the same image from glory to glory.” 2 Corinthians 3:18." – {DA 83.5}
And so there is only one thing left to say:
"He must increase, but I must decrease." John 3:30
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