Loving Jesus
My time with God isn t an obigation, it s a privilege
As a writer, I m always looking for things that would be good illustrations or ideas for a book, and
lately I’ve tried to bring that attentiveness to my daily life, to notice what God is up...
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Loving Jesus
My time with God isn t an obigation, it s a privilege
As a writer, I m always looking for things that would be good illustrations or ideas for a book, and
lately I’ve tried to bring that attentiveness to my daily life, to notice what God is up to.
While
working on Morning with Jesus, I realized I can t separate my "devotional life" from my “real” life.
It s all connected.
As John Ortberg once said, “God is not interested in your ‘spiritual life.
’ He s
interested in your life.
All of it.
He intends to redeem it.
”
Jesus is my focus most of the time when I’m in a noticing mood.
Even when I m in the midst of
making a mistake, I ve trained myself to stay highly aware of him.
I really try to bring him to mind
throughout the day—to live in a way that I "practice the presence" of Jesus.
For many years my quiet times were anything but "quiet"—instead they were noisy with me talking
to God.
As I ve gotten older they ve become more about listening—to Scripture, to God s vo
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