Living life and serving God
What is your approach to spiritual formation and discipleship?
I once knew a man who lived by the focus "to know Him and make Him known."
Others choose "loving others," "a heart of service," "love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength."
So how are you living life and serving God?
Who gets to present their understanding, their way with certain finality as ‘the approach?’ Rather than the discovery of another set of useful tools to place into their toolbox?
If you're honest, your journey with God throughout your life will take twists and turns. Different circumstances, seasons of your life will bring new revelations of God, new ways to follow Him, new qualities of His character for you to know better, new aspects of your life to cultivate. A part of our responsibility is to invite those who journey with us to see and consider these insights. We cultivate new disciplines, at times immerse in them, reflect on them or focus and at times to discard them moving on to whatever new thing God is doing in our lives or around us, at other times simply rest in a God who loves us.
Yet we point those who journey with us to pursue the course God has set before them as a part of the body of Christ. The body of Christ is extraordinarily diverse and there are unique merits in each of the many ways of following Jesus as we are pressing on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Who would have the arrogance to say “my quest in following Jesus has found the quick fix, one-size-fits-all, controllable technique for the journey of faith in this spiritual, abundant life?”
- May we be encouraged to continue to stretch our thinking, yet realize God has made each of us in a unique way.
- Let us become aware of a wider array of spiritual formation options for our journey of faith and passionately find what we need for this season.
- Never stumbling into the mistake that any part is the whole, with an open and teachable spirit gaining fresh insights from the Word of God, the people we meet and the things God gives us to digest.
- Be lifted from any spiritual ruts to embrace fully a greater passion for Christ and a greater desire to participate in His loving purpose for our life and His kingdom.
- Be reminded to appreciate the manifold legacy that has been bequeathed to us by those who have gone before.
- Walking faithfully into our expanded horizons and moving beyond our comfort zones, apathy and myopic vision through faith and obedience.
- Discovering the greatness of the adventure of being conformed to the image of His Son, as we respond to God’s gracious initiatives to trust the person and work of Jesus Christ.
posted by miriam plowman @ 10:05 PM
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