Morality

First, thanks for all the encouraging comments after my last post! And thanks especially for the prayers. It's clear to me why we need community and fellowship, not to follow some "pattern" or to get our card punched.........but because it will BLESS us, DUH! Why can't we get it? The "it" being that EVERYTHING He wants us to do is FOR us. He's kinda unselfish like that, isn't He? Imagine that.

I don't want to beat this to death, but when you hear or read impacting things it is only natural to want to share it with those you love. Here is just a taste of "Searching for God Knows What" by Donald Miller. This is from a chapter entitled "Morality".

The hijacking of the concept of morality began, of course, when we reduced Scripture to formula and a love story to theology, and finally morality to rules. It is a very different thing to break a rule than it is to cheat on a lover. A person's mind can do all sorts of things his heart would never let him do. If we think of God's grace as a technicality, a theological precept, we can disobey without the slightest feeling of guilt, but if we think of God's grace as a relational invitation, an outreach of love, we are pretty much jerks for belittling the gesture.

I told Keith Brenton (after he helped me figure out the italics thingy) this morning that I think this is the only book in my whole life that I am thinking about reading again immediately after I finish it the first time. It's that powerful, it's that impacting. If you want to read it and can't find it or can't afford it, let me know and I will get it and send it to you. And you folks that have read it....comment on your reaction to it. It won't hurt my feelings if you are not as high on it as I am. I will just delete your comments from now on. :) NOT! I wouldn't do that.

God bless each of you today on your walk. I'm glad to be walking behind you.