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Alone with God
Please forgive the two-week lapse in the regular WQOTW. I am back on schedule now after some time away from the computer while visiting Istanbul, Ancient Troy, Philippi, Corinth, Patmos, Ephesus, Sardis, and other New Testament sites in Greece and Turkey. ======================================== Today's WORSHIP QUOTE is another that challenges me to consider the importance of one-on-one time with God. The author is Cardinal Basil Hume. ALONE WITH GOD What is the spiritual life? It is that interior life whereby I strive to encounter God and develop my relationship with him by becoming increasingly more aware of him, and by desiring him more intensely. It involves all that I do and all that happens to me. It is the reason for my service of God and my neighbor. It is what makes me "tick." . . . In recent times it has become fashionable in Christian spirituality to put great emphasis on service to our neighbor and to equate service with prayer. There is much truth in this idea, but it is a half-truth. There can be no substitute in the spiritual life for being alone with God. There must be that part of spirituality which is private and individual - secret between me and my God. It is that daily attempt to become increasingly aware of the presence and the action of God in our lives and to know the growing desire within us for some kind of closeness to him. - Cardinal Basil Hume, THE MYSTERY OF THE CROSS, Darton, Longmire and Todd Ltd, 1998, pp. 48-49. Have a great week, Chip Stam Pastor of Worship and Music Chapel Hill Bible Church Chapel Hill, North Carolina |