i just started reading david crowder’s praise habit, and it’s pretty wild. i’ve been seeking God so much on just feeling his spirit in everything i do, because i’m the type that let’s how unhappy i am about one thing kind of just encompass everything else. i tend to be good at finding the bad in everything. i just get so tired of feeling like the top-of-the-surface-christian.. it’s not even putting feet to my words because there are no words. there’s not even that. i kind of feel like a fraud. but i’ve been reading this book and 2 things struck me [so far]..
‘When good is found and we embrace it with abandon, we embrace the Giver of it. This book explores that journey. This book is written in hopes that you begin to find God everywhere. Yes, in church on Sunday at 9:00 am, but also in the seemingly mundane. In traffic on Tuesday at 5:15 pm. In a parent-teacher meeting. In the colors of a sunset. On the other end of a tragic phone call. Every second is an opportunity for praise. There is a choosing to be made. A choosing at each moment. This is the Praise Habit. Finding God moment by revelatory moment, in the sacred and the mundane, in the valley and on the hill, in triumph and tragedy, and living praise erupting because of it. This is what we were made for.’
“So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life – your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life 0 and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out.” Romans 12:1-2
i want to feel him at work.
dude. I feel you a lot on that one. Just make him apart of everyday. Including him in everything. Man I can relate.
great post jamie. I’m pumped that God is using this book to sort of revive your spirit, I just had this sense come on me that the people around me, all my friends and family are ready to be revived, refreshed, really wanting more of Jesus, not just the symbol of who He is or what He represents, but seriously, the Real living Jesus, embracing us, filling us with more of Him, more so then we ever could have thought possible, enabling us to dwell and move in the supernatural, naturally. signs, wonders, miracles. That’s what God does, what Jesus does, what the disciples did and do. The bible is real, and nothing has changed, we are capable, and thats insane! I’m pumped for you!
thanks a lot david! i always appreciate your words.