Getting Involved with God

I remember my first Old Testament class in Seminary. It was Introductory to Old Testament with Hebrew scholar Ellen Davis. She wrote a book, Getting Involved with God: Rediscovering the Old Testament. The approach to this book was to introduce a new way to approach reading the Old Testament Scriptures in the Christian Bible. Instead of reading it as a precursor to the Story of Jesus or a History lesson or a moral compass, she implores that the reader of the Old Testament as a way to become intimate with God. I am rereading this book because lately I have been feeling a pull to know God on a different level.

The premise for this book is that God is very much involved with us a persons. That God's life is " bound up inextricably with ours" (Davis, 1). That God is involved with us human beings. That should bring comfort for the woman who feels that God is some extraterrestrial figure many many moons away. No, no. God is very much present and involved in our daily lives. God cares for us. That is why the New Testament writer encourages us to "cast our cares on [God] for [God] cares for us" (1 Peter 5:7).

Since God is involved in our lives, wouldn't it beneficial to get involved in God's?

Blessings,
Aurellia