- Grab your current read
- Open to a random page
- Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
- BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
- Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
Limiting God
I have spent a lifetime limiting God to fit what I had in mind. But I don't believe it's just me. We live in a consumer society. What we want is what we get. So instead of letting God be God, instead of resting in the fact that He is unfathomable, unimaginable, I have custom-made Him to fit my life. I have made Him fathomable, imaginable. Instead of asking Him to show me who He is, I tell Him who He is.
Do you want to know the primary reason that I, personally, have struggled with spiritual boredom? Because I have been worshiping a god I created, one I styled to be who I needed him to be. A god I can control? That's not God at all!
I had expectations of who He should be. I expected Him to answer my prayers in my way. I expected Him to make life easy for me. I expected Him to help me feel His presence all the time. I expected Him to prevent all my family members and friends from dying, give me A's on all my tests, and hang a green arrow in the clouds pointing to the college I should go to and the job I should take. I was believing in a god that I created. And when we do that then of course we will be bored with God!
~ taken from p. 50 & 51 of Jenna Lucado Bishop's book from Blah to Awe
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