Living by the Spirit: Moving as one with God
Living by the Spirit creates intimate oneness with God. That is, your spirit learns to move with God’s Spirit, as one moves with a lead partner in a dance.
Living by the Spirit creates intimate oneness with God. That is, your spirit learns to move with God’s Spirit, as one moves with a lead partner in a dance.
When it comes to dealing with anything spirit, the church has a long history of ignoring, twisting, adding to and taking away from the truth that gives us rest.
Church leaders bullying people. Rejecting God. Leading their followers to do the same. The day I realized I'd been seeing it for years.
In the beginning, a divided heart may look very much like an undivided one. Two paths before you appear to run side-by-side. It seems you don’t have to choose.
May I tell you a story? It’s a true story. And it shows what can happen when God sees courage in you that you do not see.
Long ago, God appointed three times each year for celebrating - times when his people, still today, can pause and delight in the Lord.
Something deep within me cries to be unflappable. But, as this incident from years ago reminds me, flapping can lead to laughing.
“O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountain crags, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.” (Song 2:14 NET)
In the middle of that dark-valley time, I often found myself alone with God, crying aloud and writing passionately in my journal. During that time too, I came to identify with David, the shepherd-poet-warrior-king, in ways I had not before. For David was also ostracized by people he trusted. And he cried out in distress - and in faith.
Moses treasured encounters with God, so much that he climbed a mountain seven times. His story can inspire us to get away with God too.