This idea is so life giving to me. I find myself communing with God more often and in more places…From John Eldridge – Restoration Year…
God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. GENESIS 1:31
Much of your story is ultimately spiritual. The tests and challenges, the joys and adventures are all designed to awaken your soul, draw you into contact with your true self, into rela-tionships, and to God. Any adventure-rightly framed-can be a powerful experience of God. And prayer or Bible study-rightly framed—is meant to be the same. There’s a shared perception that God is found in church, and that the rest of life is … just the rest of life. The tragedy of this is that the rest of life seems far more attractive than church, and thus God seems removed, even opposed to the things that make you come alive.
But God embraces the physical world; he loves creation as you do. He speaks through it and uses it to teach you many things.
We’ve lost many hearts from the church because it offers a boring spirituality, implying God is most interested in things like hymnals and whispering. And yet most of the stories of men encountering God in the Bible do not take place in church(!). In the desert Moses meets God in a burning bush. Jacob wrestles with God in the wilderness in the dead of night. David wrote most of his psalms under the stars. And most of the stories of Jesus with his disciples don’t take place in church. Not even indoors.
God is in the things you love-music, starlight, coffee, running, reading. He is in all creation, and you can find him there. Do something you love this week, and enjoy the presence of God in it!
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