In Asia, many religion separates the physical and the spiritual realm. The physical realm makes up the natural object including the emotions, physical structure, and the mind or often known as thinking while the spiritual realm makes up the supernatural, unseen, and mystic world.

Often, if one is seeking the spiritual realm of things, the abandoning of the physical realm is compulsory as the physical realm is perceived to obstruct the doorway to the spiritual realm. As such, clearing of the mind and emotions become prerequisites to connect to the spiritual realms.

These mindsets follow some believers in Christ. They continue to believe that in order to know God one must retreat to isolated places, meditate on the Word of God, or to spend prolonged time in prayers. People cannot simply come before the Lord without preparation or rather, the Lord will not meet people who are not prepared. Forget your senses if you want to meet God!

The Bible recorded for us that God met people in whatever state they are in. It is not our preparation that qualifies us to meet God but God meets people on His terms even when people are least prepared. The LORD called Abram in Genesis 11, the Angel of the Lord met Joshua in Joshua 5, the Angel of the Lord met Jacob in Genesis 32, the angel met Mary and later Joseph in Luke 1 and Matthew 1 and our Lord Jesus met Saul in Acts 9. Hence we see that the Lord meets people on His own terms and while our preparations are good, our preparations do not guarantee an encounter with the LORD. The Bible only promises that if we seek God we will find Him, not when we do something, God must show up.

David is a man of God and in Psalm 63 he gave us a clue of what seeking God means.

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.

O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.

Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.

Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.

My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:

When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.

Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.

My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.

David uses the term hunger and thirsty. These are very physical terms. They speak of the senses. He uses the term O God, thou art my God. It denotes a personal understanding of who God is and how God relates to him. It speaks of sensibility. David's psalm encompasses the profound longing that only his God can satisfy. Sense and Sensibility. David related to his God both with his senses and knowledge (sensibility). Day and night David longed for God in the midst of enemies surrounding him.

May we learn to relate to our God with all our senses and sensibility. May we experience the hunger and thirst for God as David.