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February 15, 2006
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Filed under: God, Faith & Spirituality
In his recently re-released book, The Importance of Being Foolish, Brennan Manning spends a considerable - almost uncomfortable - amount of time talking to me personally. I hate it when he does this because I wonder and worry what everyone else is getting out of the book if he's addressing only my issues.
When we cling to a miserable sense of security, the possibility of transparency is utterly defeated. Just as the sunrise of faith requires the sunset of our former unbelief, our false ideas, and our erroneous and circumscribed convictions, so the dawn of trust requires the abandonment of our craving for material and spiritual reassurances. Security in the Lord Jesus implies that we no longer calculate or count the cost.
Brennan prefaces this punch with some poignant ponderments that "every Christian must answer in total candor."
- Do I hunger for Jesus Christ?
- Do I yearn to spend time alone with Jesus in prayer?
- Is he the most important person in my life?
- Does he fill my soul with a song of joy?
- Is he on my lips as a shout of praise?
- Do I eagerly turn to his memoirs, his Testament, to learn more of him?
- Do I thirst for the living water of his Holy Spirit?
- Am I making the effort to die daily to anything and everything that inhibits, diminishes, or threatens my friendship with him?
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Brad!
I was thinking about you and your pa... your fam, wondering where and what you were up to, decided to do a quick google and and low and behold, here you be... found your dad's blog too.
I'll have to check out your blog in depth, but wanted to hey right away!
Here's our family blog: zanderfam.blogspot.com.
My email is dczander@gmail.com
Would love to hear what's going down in your life...
Darren Z
Posted by: Darren Zander at February 23, 2006 10:19 AM