Reflections http://fbclansing.org/pastorloritts Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:39:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 He’s A Person http://fbclansing.org/pastorloritts/?p=57 http://fbclansing.org/pastorloritts/?p=57#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:39:54 +0000 Rev. Bryndan Loritts http://fbclansing.org/pastorloritts/?p=57 “If you turn God into an object, he has a way of disappearing.” I’m sorry friends, it’s been a while since i’ve been blogging. Forgive me! Lately i’ve been reading this book called “A Praying Life” by Paul Miller. This book is really getting back to the basics of prayer. Sometimes in our Christian experience we tend to approach God as an object. Let me explain, have you ever been in a relationship or friendship where you felt used? Or the way you’ve been treated seemed like you were an object existing for that persons “pleasures.” Do you remember how it felt to feel used? There’s obviously pain and hurt there because the feelings don’t seem real, they simply seem fake! Why? because there was/is no real connection. Because in that persons mind you are nothing but a mere object to them. Now let’s magnify that times “eternity”! It’s so easy to treat God as an object in our lives. The underlying mind frame (yes, i’ve been guilty of this as well) is that God exist to make me happy and prosperous (money that is). No where in Scripture do we see this conveyed as something God desires of his people. As one preacher would put it, “God is more so interested in our Holiness than he is our happiness.”

It is so easy to forget my brothers and sisters that God is a person. He gets angry with us, he hurts with us, he laugh’s with us, cries with us and the list goes on and on. He wants to be deeply involved and attached to our lives like “cheese and broccoli”…:-)! He desires to be closer to us today than he was yesterday. He wants to use you in ways that will blow your mind. He’s a person who invites you daily to sit at “His feet” to learn and know Him. However, if we only look to God as an object: “Someone existing for my pleasure and use” then He will pull back. God doesn’t want to be used he wants to use YOU!!!! That requires that we become like children in humility, surrender to Him, throw away the pride and arrogance that so easily entangles us and say, “Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, i want to know YOU!!”

Is that your cry? It sure is mine

In Him….Pastor Loritts

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