What do you think of when you think of a God-seeker? Someone who spends an hour on their knees in prayer? Some who lives a life of solitude or travels often to attend spiritual retreats? Yeah, I used to think that to. I used to believe that I had to carve out as much “God” time as possible in my day. The more of the “world” I cut out, the better. The only problem is the world didn’t want to leaven me alone. It wrapped its tentacles around me. It filled my weeks. It burdened my mind, heart, and God-goals. Life just wouldn’t let go.
Lately, I’ve been thinking that perhaps this wasn’t how it was supposed to be after all. Maybe my job isn’t to cut out my life to make room for God. Maybe I’m suppose to take God into every part of my life. More than that. Maybe He’s all ready there.
I’m to see God before me, behind me, beside me and in me as I go through my day. If He is in me and around all I do, nothing touches me that hasn’t touched Him first. He desires to carry me through my day just as He desires me to look to Him during those quiet moments. Maybe more.
As I was thinking this I came upon a quote by Sister Wendy, “The temptation always is to think that religion means we must be different, unencumbered by the world. This is not so. Look at the life of Jesus. He lived in a quarrelsome, demanding, hostile world and accepted all of it as the world His Father redeem.”
Do you stress about not doing enough to keep the world at bay? Perhaps today you can do as Jesus did–live IN the world keeping your mind and heart open to the Father’s work. I know I’m gonna try to do that more. Won’t you join me?
This was a great reminder to me today..and definitely how I want to live my life. Thank you for sharing!
I really, really like the point of this blog post. Jesus always met people where they were “at,” but he loved them too much to leave them there. Very cool.