Lord, I tend to forget about your nature as a whole, embracing the single aspect of your character that fits me best and totally ignoring the rest of who you are because it doesn’t go well with my personal agenda. I, like most others, embrace that part of you characterized by grace and forgiveness. But, I overlook that part of you that challenges me and puts painful opportunities to grow in my path. I overlook the aspect that pays back calamity and discipline for my stubborn sins. I overlook the part of you that is majestic and powerful and transcendent. In so doing, I have accepted an understanding of God far less worthy than what the Truth tells me. Furthermore, God’s intervention in my life is limited because there is a solid progression concerning my understanding of God, my need for Christ, my transformation in the Spirit.
O Father, let me embrace the holistic landscape of you that scripture paints, not the selfish 5″x7″ that my personal agenda has created.
SRay
August 8th, 2006 at 9:04 am
Amen. I think you’d really like that book I started last night.