Anxiously Awaiting On Everything Eternal…

Interesting changes

Sometimes I go to a local house church here in Atlanta. And by sometimes, I really mean not often enough. Recently we came to a unanimous decision to have a regular discipleship meeting on a particular day at a restaraunt, and our first task as a group would be to read Celebration of Discipline by Richard J. Foster. Honestly, this book has made some revolutionary progress in my walk with the Lord.

The book is segregated into chapters dedicated to the different facets of spiritual discipline. So far I have read chapters one, two, and three, which cover an introduction, and the topics of meditation and prayer respectively. I'm slightly behind my house church bretheren--who just finished chapter four: fasting--but I am experiencing such a revolutionary side of Christ through Foster's writing that I really want to take it slow. I want to marinate in the concepts he describes so I can discover new insights in to God's Word. By no means am I replacing God's perfect Word with an imprefect man made manuscript, but I am instead using it as a supplimental guide as one would use a thesaurus or dictionary when writing poetry. It is quite sad however, that I am not to the level yet that I can experience such "Ah ha!" moments when directly reading the Word of God. I hope that through Foster's writings I will learn how to experience such intimacy with God that I can strike out on my own with nothing but the Word and a conviction to be richly and genuinely changed.