That was the general topic of our LifeGroup tonight. We’re working our way through Henry Blackaby’s Experiencing God study. If you’ve never done that study, you’re missing a treat. It’s not one you can rush through. There’s an assignment/section 5 days of the week, and it’ll cost you some time and effort. But if there’s a better study out there for helping folks know and do the will of God, I haven’t run across it.
Kim and I have done this study many times, and each time is just as meaningful as the first time. In fact, it’s almost like a brand new study because we’ve grown over the years; we’re not the same people we were the first time through it.
The part that jumped out at me this week is that God speaks so that I can obey him. He’s the God of the universe, right? He knows everything, sees everything. Put that together with the fact that he loves me, and it all sort of falls into place. Because of his love and knowledge, when God speaks, I can trust that he’s trying to get me into a place that is going to be good for me, for his glory. I don’t believe that God’s some master-puppeteer, trying to control all of us for his amusement. I do believe that God wants me to obey him because it’s for my best.
God speaks because he wants us to know so that we can obey and experience his presence.
So that leaves me with the question: What is God saying to me now? That’s a pretty big question. I don’t know that I have a short answer, but I’m listening. I’m paying attention to what he’s saying to my heart/soul, what I’m reading in the Bible, and who he’s bringing into my life. I’m having some monumental discussions with people about the Kingdom of God, the purpose and practice of Church, and how our lives are supposed to lived.
A good friend of mine reminded me tonight that it’s easy to have these conversations. The deconstruction of Church is nothing new. The part that we seem to get hung up on is usually what are we supposed to do differently so that we don’t end up back where we started.
That’s sort of what God is speaking to me lately. What’s God saying to you?
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