My Walk with Christ
An ordinary guy on a supernatural journey.
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Schooled by the Psalms (Christianity Today)
Posted on September 28th, 2008 No comments- “Learning to pray is learning to desire the things God wants to give, and then asking him for them… He desires things for us that we may not even desire for ourselves…”
- Psalms was a primary book for learning how to pray for Ben
- “Learning to pray is like playing the violin with virtuosos… in the beginning… it’s all screech and scratch… as time passes, however, he begins little by little to sound more and more like the virtuosos.” “By praying the Psalms back to God, we learn to pray in tune with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.”
- There are “one size fits all” psalms (like 103)
- Conquer guilt (51, 130)
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Trusting and obeying God
Posted on September 28th, 2008 No comments- There was a great analogy that he used for trusting God even when his direction is not the humanly intuitive direction: He described a scene where he was driving somewhere using a GPS device, and the GPS was telling him to go in another direction than where he knew his destination was. Point was that he didn’t know there was a mountain range in front of him and the GPS was directing him around something it knew was in front of him, but he didn’t. God’s direction needs to be trusted and obeyed – he is all knowing and loves us – or we get ourselves into trouble.
- Doyle also talked about obeying as NOT what we do to earn grace but what we do IN RESPONSE to grace. His analogy was that he loves his wife so much that he would never do something that would hurt her – like an affair. He doesn’t stay faithful because of the marriage contract, he stays faithful (obeys) because he loves her so much. The same is true as we obey God and Christ.