Jon Acuff, one of the funniest Christian writers I have ever come across, has a blog called Stuff Christians Like. I was reading through it one day and he wrote something that struck me,he said, "I decided to write." It was in response to someone asking him how to get a book published, and all he did was decide to write. It wasn't him being condescending or anything of the sort, it was him honestly saying that when he gets up he decides to write everyday.
It got me thinking about the spiritual side of things when he wrote this, it got me thinking about how so often we read countless books trying to figure out how to get closer to God, we sit in coffee shops trying to figure out how to make God more real in our lives, essentially we pursue the pursuit of God. It would be like asking your cat to find the dog for you, actually it would make more sense to ask the dog to find the cat because cats are snobs who don't care about peoples feelings unless they want to be fed or pet.
Regardless, rather than reading self help books trying to find out how to draw closer to God, why not just draw closer to Him? Why don't we wake up every morning and before we take a step out of bed decide that today we are going to walk closer with God than we did yesterday? The key to getting a book published is deciding to write, the key to walking closer to God is deciding to do it. We mung it up with rules and processes and disciplines, why not just drop whatever it is we are doing and follow Him?
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Thanks for sharing about Scott and Dani!
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