Interested

The lie is God has no interest in my life.  Its hard to view it any other way.  Sure – he’s watching to make sure I say my prayers and that I put money in the collection plate as its passed around on Sunday…but does he bother himself with the rest of my life?

Its easier to keep thing compartmentalized, to keep the categories of my life nice and tidy.  My boss doesn’t care what I do when I’m off the clock.  My drinking buddies don’t ask how my marriage is doing.  And God doesn’t care what I do Monday-Saturday.

But learning to hear the voice of God starts in the everyday of life – to live in expectancy of his ever-present love and sovereignty.

The second lie is that life is easier when lived in isolation from God.  That I don’t WANT God’s interest in my life.  Independence was the temptation in the Garden, and ever since, we’ve been like a clay pot arguing with its potter:

6 so all the world from east to west

will know there is no other God.

I am the Lord, and there is no other.

7 I create the light and make the darkness.

I send good times and bad times.

I, the Lord, am the one who does these things.

8 “Open up, O heavens,

and pour out your righteousness.

Let the earth open wide

so salvation and righteousness can sprout up together.

I, the Lord, created them.

9 “What sorrow awaits those who argue with their Creator.

Does a clay pot argue with its maker?

Does the clay dispute with the one who shapes it, saying,

‘Stop, you’re doing it wrong!’

Does the pot exclaim,

‘How clumsy can you be?

Letting God into every issue of my life gives me great anxiety and simultaneously great peace.  What is he saying to me when I log onto Facebook?  When I prepare my taxes?  When I ride the bus?  When I lie awake at night…

Learning to be “God-grown” is at its core, a matter of paying attention and expecting God’s presence in every situation.  This presence is infinitely better than an absence – that God as my potter knows what he’s doing, and arguing or fighting for independence won’t bring the life and health I’m looking for.

Take a fresh approach to your day – what “room” in your life have you left locked, keeping God out?  I guarantee you – his presence is infinitely better than his absence.

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