I just started another book today by Phillip Yancey. Phillip Yancey wrote one of my most favorite books Whats so Amazing about Grace. This one is called Reaching for the Invisible God. I have only read a couple of chapters, but I want to comment on a couple of quotes that I don't want to forget.
Quote 1 - "If you find God with great ease, perhaps its not God that you have found."
If you read my blog below you will know that this speaks to my quest I am on this year. A quest to know the magnificent part of God. Right now our Pastor is preaching a sermon series on The Holy Spirit - Our Best Friend. He is showing our church that the Holy Spirit is our comforter, our companion, and someone we can commune with all day long. I know that this is a fact because the Holy Spirit does commune with me. For instance yesterday, I woke up to find Blake already at work. I felt a little sad at first because he hadn't woke me up before he left to tell me Happy Birthday and without a doubt in my heart I know the Holy Spirit spoke to me. He said, "Happy Birthday and I am the first to tell you." I fell back to sleep with a smile on my face. What a gift!! So far Phillip Yancey seems to come across as skeptical about this kind of relationship with God. I believe God is reachable through the Holy Spirit. Jesus walked and talked, and touched people and He was God. Pastor Robert said yesterday that Jesus said sending the Holy Spirit would be better that having him on the earth. Why? Because we can each walk and talk with the Holy Spirit - each of us that has surrendered our life to God can have God with us. But there is the God possibly God the Father(?), that walked past Moses and covered his eyes so that He would not die from looking at Him. I know I am not in a place for that much of God to walk past me, but I want to get closer and I feel strongly that it won't be "with great ease."
Gotta go make dinner so I'll try to post a couple of more quotes tonight.
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