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Dec 05, 2019
In his book, Abandonment to Divine Providence, Jean-Pierre de Caussade says, “Every moment we live through is like an ambassador that declares the will of God to us. If we understood how to see in each moment some manifestation of the will of God we should find therein all that our hearts could desire. If we were attentive and watchful God would reveal Himself to us, and we would see His divine action in everything that happened to us and rejoice in it.”
There is no more infallible way to seek the will of God than by seeing the grace of God in each moment. If we did nothing more than that, de Cassaude says, we would attain the highest levels of transformation. Everything in life is to be welcomed as somehow the expression of the will of God. Your reaction to whatever happens has to be “as if” it were the will of God, or you can’t respond to it graciously.
How can we live like this? I find living and seeing God in the moment increasingly difficult in a hyper extroverted, input intensive, plugged in world. But, engaging in an inner conversation each week that reviews the events that have occurred and looks for the meaning and wisdom to be extracted is achievable. I find this consistently is the most important conversation I have each week…..the one with myself and God.
During inner conversations, your engagement with other people is suspended, as you reflect upon the week and strive to see God in all its moments. Gordon MacDonald has provided a series of questions I have adapted to focus my thoughts and reflect on where God has been working in my life in recent days.
Church leaders must acknowledge the indispensable need for adding to their calendar a regular time for an inner conversation with themselves and God. For as Oswald Chambers so profoundly wrote, “The battle is won in the secret places of the will before God.”
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