I have finally finished reading a book. I started reading it at the beginning of the semester. Reading 3 books at a time. One in hostel, the other one for journey purposes and another one at home. I finished the one in hostel.

I felt that I should write a little on what I have read and share it here. I found the book very encouraging and it really has caused me to reflex on things. Indeed many of us walk around like a box with large red and black letters which says DANGER DYNAMITE! However, only has common paraphernalia stored within. We are created to store spiritual dynamite but somehow or another, the dynamite is wet or really isn’t even there.

Anyway, I picked up a few things to highlight which caught my attention while reading. I summarized them in my words. =)

Well, really so how does someone who’s spiritually passionate life look like? In 1 Chronicles 11 David in the midst of running away from the Philistines David spoke out with some nostalgia “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem. Clearly not a command but a mere wish. That wish though was enough to sent David’s three might men determined to deliver water as a gift from the Bethlehem well as soon as possible even though this means battling through the war to get it. That is called devotion and passion.

However, they could never heard have heard the wish if they were not in the presence of David to hear it. To be in the presence of the Commander is to be in a safe place and to hear his wishes demands a still time when listening is the most important thing. That’s intimacy, and it generates passion, a desire to hear and to please. No hearing, no intimacy, no passion.

Everyone can hear God giving a command unless he chooses not to but it takes a sensitive ear to hear the wishes of God, and that only comes in safe places at still times. When Adam and Eve failed at the Garden of Eden passion was lost. The Christian story is that of restoration. Restoration of intimacy with God and of the passion which comes from renewing our choice to respond to His wishes.

I believe that we sometimes over-complicate our God and His ways of coming to us. Thanks to our intelligence and much learned knowledge we think we can organized Him, strategized Him and compartmentalized Him. We have reduced His ways of working with us to cute little formulas. But it is clear that God longs to renew a spiritual passion within us.