It’s about relationship
I had to laugh as Neil talked about a marriage based on rules… (well, really, they’re more like guidelines…) Engineers. Life’s pretty black and white. Thankfully, though, it sounds like he figured out how to do the marriage thing! J
This I love about today’s reading, though: sometimes we’re tempted to measure our spiritual life by someone else’s, but in reality, just like every relationship is different, my spiritual life won’t be just like yours. That’s cool!
Like we’ve already said, there are certain things that will keep that relationship growing, just like all plants need water and sunlight. And dirt. We neglect those to our own harm.
But in all else – how we express ourselves in worship, how we pray (I loved the phrase about prayer – it’s the language of your relationship), even how we think about God – we get our own flavor.
I’m looking forward to seeing what the next few days hold.
Even though I love rules (I am just wired that way) I can appreciate the value of a relationship not dictated by a formula. I like the rigidity of a formula to solve a problem, but that is not how relationships work. When I try to follow some formula or set of tasks to have relationship it seems distance and sterile to me and on the flip side when I really let myself relax and just “be me” then I have the best relationships. I imagine we are going to learn this is the same with worship and our very walk with God, when we relax and act like ourselves the relationship follows.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to reading about the walk with the Spirit and walking with God.
Oh yah and I really like the verse in the beginning that says the law of the Spirit of life trumps the law of sin and death and sets you free through Christ.