I recently read this amazing book, The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning. I loved it because he really wrote of the deep love and grace of the Father that we so often overlook. Too often we have let our Christianity become what we DO for God and not simply BEING with Him and enjoying the love He lavishes upon us. I think a lot of it comes back to that constant struggle of the Mary and Martha within us. The same struggle of Martha loving the Lord but showing it by buzzing around like a chicken with her head cut off, preparing things for God, and feeling frustrated that her sister wasn't doing likewise. However, Jesus commended Mary and said she had chosen the better thing of simply dwelling at His feet and chilling with Him. I love that! How I want to keep this verse on my forehead all my life,
2Co 11:3 But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
I want to keep that awe and wonder of the pure and sincere devotion to Christ.
So anyhow, there was this one quote in the book that truly caused me to look at each situation and ask myself am I living in sincerity and pure devotion to Christ and finding myself satisfied in Him OR wanting more, feeling discouraged, unsatisfied, or worried?
Norman Mailer once said, "Each moment of our existence, we are either growing into more or retreating into less. We are either living a little more or dying a little bit."
I want to live more! I want to go deeper in hanging out with God and enjoying what He places in my life and that sweet hang out time with Him!
Most of all I want the words "L'amour de Dieu est folie" (the love of God is folly)
to be true of my life. I want to live in that childlike wonder of a God who created the universe and loves me simply for who I am, a child bought by the blood of His Son Jesus Christ!
