Friday, December 14, 2012

God is Closer Than You Think.



I'm reading, "God is Closer Than You Think," by John Ortberg. It is a very good book and I recommend it. In one chapter he writes about how there is no set way for people to grow in grace.

"God wants to be fully present with each of us. But because he made us to be different from one another, we are not identical in the activities and practices that will help us connect with him. Some writers speak of people as having different spiritual temperaments and pathways. ...A spiritual pathway has to do with the way we most naturally sense God's presence and experience spiritual growth."

 We are not clones, robots or cookie-cut people. Everyone is different, and I think God loves variety in everything, even people. The way I worship God and get to know him may be vastly different than your way, but that's okay as long as we are headed in the same direction: toward God.

Ortberg says, "We need to accept and embrace the unique way God created us. Instead of following "mass production approaches to spiritual growth, we need to make sure we spend adequate time and activity pursuing the pathways that most help us connect with God."

I remember when I used to attend church how there would be programs that they wanted everyone to join and do things a certain way. But that left no opening for individuality. I've noticed churches have changed since then. They see that people have different gifts and everyone can't do the same thing.

Just like flowers are not all alike, God has made us all amazingly different Vive la difference!


A. Gundelach, Gelsenkirchen (grandfather of User:Produnis)
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2 comments:

Just Be Real said...

"God wants to be fully present with each of us."

That line says it all!

Blessings.

Belle said...

Blessings!