10. Sometimes you will experience what I call a “tasty time” with God. That is to say, your prayer or Bible reading, or “that one time in church,” or during a conference or special retreat, you have an extraordinary sense of God’s presence.
You will want your every prayer and every reading and every meeting to be a “tasty time” of spiritual excitement and enlightenment. Of course, you know, faith operates in the unseen, unfelt aspects of life. By faith we believe that God is involved in our lives whether or not we can touch him, hear him or see him.
The spiritual masters of yesteryear tell us not to expect spiritual excitement and enlightenment every time. It is not any one particular reading or one prayer or one attendance at church that is going to form your inner life. It will be the continual practices of prayer, reading, meditation, community and ministry to others that God will use to gradually enrich your walk with him.
Sometimes these conscious visits with God will be extraordinary. Most of the time they will be ordinary.
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