What's Your Intended Destiny

Deep is the Gift of Discipline

Have you been to the mountain peaks recently? I don't mean geographically, I mean spiritually. Have you visited the heights with God lately?

"Deep is the gift of discipline. Maslow said the whole world is comprised of non-peakers telling non-peakers about peak experiences. In some ways it seems to me that much of Christianity is a conversation of snorkelers talking to each other of scuba experiences. If mere conversation or study groups were the path to depth experience, the church would be deep indeed. But it is those who read and pray, not those who philosophize and chatter, who arrive at lives of real power." - Calvin Miller

I find one of the most interesting things... if "conversation or study groups" were the path to the deep, to the deep things of God ... I'd say we Christians, particularly Baptist Christians (because I am one) should be way deep by now! But it's not neccessarily true. In some ways our lives remind me of sponges that absorb and absorb and absorb. Is it any wonder God sends experiences into our lives to wring us out from time to time?

How do we arrive at real power in our lives?

Do we leave church or Bible study with more questions than we came with? Finding that even perhaps some of our questions reminded unanswered? And does that draw us toward God... the one and only who does have our answers? Or better yet who can in place of the answers we think we need, give us Himself! Well, praise God if that is true.

Take time with God this week. Ask Him to take you up the mountain side for just awhile and be willing to go to the heights with Him. There's plenty of work to be done in the valley, but first things first.

posted by miriam plowman @ 11:51 AM