Habituation: Friend or Foe?
#1
Posted 15 October 2015 - 01:15 PM
- Julie Daube, ADVRider and Meema like this
#2
Posted 15 October 2015 - 05:55 PM
my Christian walk has become dull mechanical[from Tozer pursuit of God]the man is saved but he is not hungry nor thirsty after God, I want to taste to touch with my heart to see with my inner eyes the wonder of God.Iam ashamed of my lack of desire O God I want to want you I long to be filled with longing to be thirsty. I pray that I might know you indeed, be exalted above all ... my Lord bring me back to the boiling point to know that I know the living God. bob
- Meema likes this
#3
Posted 16 October 2015 - 01:52 AM
Amen Bob Wire we all need this letting control of our life to THE hands that are more capable.
- Thinker and Meema like this
#4
Posted 16 October 2015 - 06:03 AM
#5
Posted 16 October 2015 - 02:08 PM
I am a work in progress,
Charlie
- Kevin Blankenship and Thinker like this
#6
Posted 21 October 2015 - 08:16 AM
I think sometimes, believers are unintentionally taught or conditioned to think that the habituation of Christian disciplines are the equal to a relationship with God. Or they are the sum and substance of their Christianity. In my observation, this varies greatly depending on denomination or tradition. Some give little or no emphasis to the "deeper life" and all is "high and dry." And there is the other side as well, where even scripture is minimized or subjugated to experience.
I've dialogued with people who were so proud of their "knowledge" of the Bible, but they didn't realize their knowledge was their God. Likewise, for some in the other camp, equally unknown, was that "experience" was everything.
So certainly, we have to be aware of the possibility that we can become habituated in a way that can leave God Himself out of the picture and we substitute something of ourselves in place of Him.
- Charles Miles, Thinker and Meema like this