Messy Spirituality is a book by Michael Yaconelli. It's pretty much blowing my mind. Definitely more to follow with this one. Just a quick update i guess.
We define spirituality as being right with God and following him. But what if things are hard? What if we can barely grasp prayer? Are we simply unspiritual?
no.
Spirituality isn't being the perfect Christian. Spirituality is giving it all we got, trying to stay afloat in a busy world. Now don't take that wrong. I'm not trying to say that to be spiritual you have to slack off. What i mean to say is that God didn't come for those who had it all together. He came for the messy. And when we see the Light and we meet Jesus, we aren't instantly unmessy. Our past still remains and we still have our problems. But we have been cleaned by the blood, we are being Sanctified. It is a process of making us unmessy. This process doesn't end until we meet him face to face on the Last Day.
Spirituality isn't unmessy. Spirituality is giving God 60%, because thats all we have to give. Spirituality is not commiting ourselves to memorize this or stay in this certain biblestudy. Spirituality is taking a break and admiting we can't do it on our own. Spirituality is messy.
more to come
-Matt
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