So I think I've really gone and done the unthinkable by starting a "real" blog. I am no writer by any stretch, and yet I feel the need to be more purposeful and diligent in contemplating what I read and study and see and think by hashing it all out in words. Like in school, when nothing really ever sunk too deeply until you had to write about it. I don't know. Plus, I want to hash my thoughts out with the people I know whose opinions are so valuable to me.
So I'm reading Spurgeon this morning on the presence of Christ and he speaks of "...walking with God as Enoch did, and so turning weekdays into Sabbaths, meals into sacraments, homes into temples, and earth into heaven." And my first thought, is "God, that is beautiful!", and my second is "but how possible is that, really?".
I do such a good job of compartmentalizing certain areas of my life away from God and successfully block so many convictions. It all ends up weighing on me as this collective "unknown" feeling of discontent. How alluring it sounds to be able to live so openly and consciously in the presence of the Lord that your weekdays really do become Sabbaths, your meals sacraments! But how possible is that while all the time being acutely conscious of your own sinfulness?
I've been tossing around the idea of "the presence of God" so much lately after thinking about it little to none in the last couple of years. I think, actually, I went through such a cerebral phase of my faith where I dismissed so much of the experiential side of it as hokey or presumptuous. Does that make sense? And now I'm craving, so much, to understand what it means to be in the presence of Christ.
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Wow! Great post!!
I'm glad you have an outlet for your thoughts - it can be very theraputic.
This is a great topic to mull over. It seems that modern Christianity either separates the two (secular vs. holy) or combines the two to a fault, where if you are anything other than a pastor or a missionary, you're missing the boat. But I'm with Chuck - I disagree!
This topic has come up in conversation recently, and I think it's a vital one. Keep chewing on it. And keep on reading. And let me know if you figure out how it all fits together.
I have lately wondered some of the same things, and luckily, I was doing homework, something I hate to do, and decided to check my email instead, which contained one from you to read this blog! So I must procrastinate on the h.w. and say this.
One thing I have to say about God that I have learned over the past few months actually, is that we need Him, He does not need us. He put us here to glorify Him. We are products of Him! So, we must always remember that everything we do, should be in His glory. I love how people "think" about God, like he is some sort of human being, thinking like us. That is all, I must return to my H.W.
I love how I just typed up this wonderful comment up, tried to submit it, however I wasn't a "Google member" so I joined, and then, it lost my words, they are lost forever!
It was basically, I feel convicted of my sins the closer I journey to Christ, and I think that it is His way of making us deciles of His message, yet we can never be perfect, we are of the flesh and will always strive to be better, only if we continue to grow in the Word.
opps, i guess i should have looked before i published! my wonderful posting is there, wow, God does work in mysterious ways.
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