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Donald Miller
Too much of our time is spent trying to chart God on a grid, and too little is spent allowing our hearts to feel awe.
By reducing Christian spirituality to a formula, we deprive our hearts of wonder…
I want to tell you something about me that you may see as a weakness.
I need wonder.
I know that death is coming.
I smell it in the wind, read it in the paper, watch it on television, and see it on the faces of the old.
I need wonder to explain what is going to happen to me, what is going to happen to us when this thing is done, when our shift is over and our kids’ kids are still on the earth listening to their crazy rap music.
I need something mysterious to happen after I die.
I need to be somewhere else after I die, somewhere with God, somewhere that wouldn’t make any sense if it were explained to me right now
I love how the Gospels start, with John the Baptist eating bugs and baptizing people.
The religious people started getting baptized because it had become popular, and John yells at them and calls them snakes.
He says the water won’t do anything for them, it will only get their snakeskins wet.
But if they meant it, if they had faith that Jesus was coming and was real, then Jesus would ignite the kingdom life within them.
I love that because for so long religion was my false gospel.
But there was no magic in it, no wonder, no awe, no kingdom life burning in my chest.
And when I get tempted by the same stupid Christian religion, I go back to the beginning of the Gospels and am comforted that there is something more than the emptiness of ritual.
God will ignite the kingdom life within me, the Bible says.
That’s mysticism.
It isn’t a formula that I am figuring out.
It is something God does
Joel almost 900 years before Acts 2.
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