God has made changes in my life. Recently, I felt impressed to step away from active ministry for at least a “season.” I am “called” to spend the “doing” time in “being” time. With God’s help. I plan to spend time getting to know Him rather than getting to know about Him. I’ll be working on finding a plan to follow which will be more than reading a daily devotional and saying a few prayers. I want to really get to know God.
That is a scary thought. What if it doesn’t work? What if I do get to know Him and discover that He is not what I expected? What if He is actually real?
It follows that if I’m going to honestly get to know Him, I have to let Him get to know me – the real me. (I realize even contemplating that He doesn’t already know everything about me is merely an exercise in sophistry, but I suspect we’ve all played the game that if we don’t tell God something, like hiding a secret from our parents when we were a kid, He won’t know.) I any of you have never played that game, please put your story in the comments. We’d all like to meet such a person – if such exists.
My plan thus far is to spend about 45 minutes to an hour walking and listening to the scriptures or sometimes to worship music. When I come in, I plan to sit and contemplate whatever God has for me on the day. I suspect that this contemplation will lead to God expecting something from me. In his Biblical letter, James at Chapter 2 verses 14-16 concludes that “faith without works is dead.” I want a vibrant faith, not a dead one – not a “couch-potato” faith.
Finding the balance will be difficult, but I suspect that God will show me the way.
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