Letters from the Fire14

“God-Centric Christianity: Waiting on Him.”

Of course Christianity is supposedly God-centric by nature, but when you look back to the early church and it’s beginnings there is a radical difference between the church today and the church then.  The early church waited on God before they did ANTHING.  Christianity today on the other hand encourages us to figure things out on our own with the assistance of God.  We utilize our senses, our intelligence, our God-given abilities to walk out our Christian life where God is a side note, called upon mainly for those times when we can’t figure out what to do or we need him to bail us out.  The Christian life is therefore very soulish, hardly compelling, and rarely powerful.  It is based mainly on our efforts and our very limited ability to understand God.

Now consider a God-centric Christianity where you are totally dependent on God, and the more you walk with him, the more dependent you become.  God is wild and to be feared.  He doesn’t come to your house, rather you go to his sanctuary and follow his house rules.  You align yourself with what he is doing, and you plug youself into his prayers.  As you wait for him in silence and position youself to hear his voice, he works to shape you into a receptive vessel.  As you clean up the sanctuary of your soul by dealing with those things that entangle you, his voice becomes clearer and stronger than those in your head.  Praying in tongues and worshipping (wholy focused on him alone and devoid of  any effort to get him to do anything), work to release you from you – the sin nature that curves us back into ourselves; and as my pastor Michael said is more powerful than any demon! God fills your praise, making space where there was no room to move before, and he comes through the cracks so your location changes and you are no longer gravity bound in your circumstances but rather ascend to breathe the air of heaven..  Rageev, a lay leader at my church put it this way,  “As Christians we are still prone to seek out answers from the tree of good and evil instead of the tree of life.”  If so, we must soberly examne our relationship with the Father and allow him to unravel our misperceptions and/or misunderstandings of him so we can enjoy the costly fruit from the tree of life and the sweet fellowship and direction of the Trinity.

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