What am I learning?
Recently, one of our pastors preached a sermon focusing on one main question - "What am I learning?" It's wonderful to have intimate moments with God and to be overwhelmed by His presence. It's great to receive powerful revelation of His Word. But if those experiences aren't changing me, what's the point? So I decided to stop and look at what God's been teaching me the past few months: I'm learning obedience is better than sacrifice when I'm obeying from a place of relationship with my Father, not simply trying to avoid His anger with rote religious acts of sacrifice. Real relationship requires trust. Loving people the way they need to be loved is hard, and does require sacrifice. There is a time to war and a time to weep. God does both and invites us to join Him. God weeps, but never despairs or loses hope. He sees things from an eternal perspective. I need to spend more time seeing things from God's perspective. People need hope...