Walking w/ God

Quotes from Finding God, Larry Crabb. Ch. 2

Seeking God
You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the Lord. Jer 29:13-14

Walking w/ God
Gen 5:22 - Enoch walked with God 300 years. How is "walking w/ God" distinct from "living out" your allotted years? Am I merely living, or am I walking w/ God?

Our agenda is to fix the world until it can properly take care of us. God's agenda is to bring all things together in Christ until every knee is before him.

We treat personal discomfort (self-hatred, low self-esteem, insomnia, money pressures, loneliness) as the central evil from which we need to be saved. When we blend the pursuit of comfort w/ Christianity, Jesus becomes a divine masseur whose demands we heed only after we are properly relaxed.

But this is not the Christianity of the Bible. Christ offers hope, not relief, in the middle of suffering, and he commands us to pursue him hotly even when we'd rather stop and look after our own well-being.

Whenever we place a higher priority on solving our problems than on pursuing God, we are immoral.

I must surrender my fascination with myself to a more worthy preoccupation w/ the character and purposes of God. I am not the point. He is. I exist for him. He does not exist for me.

The question me must ask is this: Are we merely living, or are we walking w/ God?

Finding God, Larry Crabb. pg. 29-42