Waiting for Jesus to Show Up
Posted by tom | Dec 13, 2009The reason I don't like to pray is simple. I don't really love God. I do love the idea of loving God. It would be a fine, fine thing to love God, I believe. But I have to face it: One reason I go to church is not because I already love God but because I'd like to love him. I'm afraid I have the same reaction to church as I do to prayer. Lots of debate about whether I should go. Going most Sundays because I should go. And when it's over, a lot of times I can say, "I love having worshiped." ... -- Waiting for Jesus to Show Up: Moving from loving the idea of loving God to loving God (Mark Galli, Christianity Today, posted 12/10/2009 10:33AM). HT: Arlene
What's waiting been like this Advent for you, your family, the local assembly of which you are a member? How are you entering the new year of the Christian calendar (and 2010)? Take a few minutes to be challenged/encouraged by Waiting for Jesus to Show Up: Moving from loving the idea of loving God to loving God. Let us know by email how we can pray for you.
The reality of the Kingdom of God and the Presence of God has recently shown through with power in conversation at a graduate student dinner sponsored by the PSU-Hershey Mecial Center's Christian Medical Society (CMS), reading G.P. Taylor's Shadowmancer (Note: CT Author interview), family devotions based upon The Jesse Tree [Geraldine McCaughrean, Bee Willey (illustrator), Eerdmans, 2005], the adult elective on N.T. Wright's Simply Christian, and blocks of time to be quiet/listen (I really enjoy "no radio" in runs back and forth from CMS activities).
Pray for each and every member of our family, our whole family, and people of God to journey through this season and the coming year with eyes focused upon the Christ child. To God be the glory!
