Tag Archives: Seeking God

09May/22

Training Wheels

May 9, 2022A Slow Walk Through the Bible, Galatians, New Testament BooksDiscernment, Faith, God, Law, Loving God, Seeking GodMichael

After having read Paul’s arguments for the law, I started singing the lyrics to the old Temptations song, “War.” Only I modified the lyrics, “Law! What is it good for, absolutely nothing!” Of course, that just means that I was following along with Paul’s train of thought, and going right where he wanted his readers/listeners to go. After all of this arguments, we are left wondering exactly the same question that Paul starts this passage with: “Why then the law?” If the promise God made to Abraham supersedes the law, then why was there ever a compendium of rules and regulations? Why were they necessary, if the way to God could be found through faith alone?

21Apr/21

When God Becomes Routine

April 21, 2021Random Thoughts, Things I Read SomewhereGod, Hearing God, Loving God, Prayer, Presence of God, Retreat, Routine, Seeking God, StressMichael

The stark contrast between my beautiful weekend and the reality of Monday morning made me aware of how easy it is to lose the peaceful nature of those moments away from routine, and I wondered how beautiful it would be to experience those moments I experienced on the retreat in the normal routine of my life. I wondered if it would be possible to live in the mindset of the retreat in every moment.

12Mar/21

The New New, Now Now

March 12, 2021Random ThoughtsChrist, God, Gods Plan, Gods Will, Growth, Newness, Prayer, Renewal, Sanctification, Seeking, Seeking God, Spiritual Growth, Transformation, WaitingMichael

I’ve seen books that hype the new way to experience the divine, new methods for seeking God, new ways to enter into that state of bliss that helps us to commune with God.

And these books always seem to sell well. They sell well, because the old, tried and true methods for finding God have been tried, and found not to be true.

02Aug/20

The Possible Impossible

August 2, 2020Return To Sender, SermonsAction, Faith, God, Miracles, Seeking GodMichael

I tried to rationalize, I tried to ignore, I tried to bargain, but for some reason, God kept putting this on my heart, and I finally relented. As I gave the money to my local priest to give to the bishop, I was almost in tears, wondering how this could remotely be God’s plan, seeing as how I didn’t have the money to deal with my own bills.

25Jul/20

Practicality

July 25, 2020Memory Lane, Random Thoughts, Things I Read SomewhereGod, Love, Relationships, Seeking, Seeking God, Self-Care, Self-ExaminationMichael

The trouble with this viewpoint is that it seeks to benefit from faith without putting any work into it. It looks for safety, it looks for rescue and the salvation from eternal damnation, rather than a relationship with God. It is purely practical.