I heard this statement recently. "The Christian life is a received life". (By Ed Piorek I think) I have been pondering on this for some days. I guess another way of saying it is 'Everything we are we have received from him.' Somehow we know this is true - and yet we find it hard to stay as 'a receiver'.
We have these scripts in our head that having once 'believed and received' our salvation for free we now have to 'do it all right' in order to deserve more. Or maybe we have asked and not received as we had hoped, so now we have stopped asking or expecting anything will come our way. We are 'going through the motions.' Hmmm. Or we think we must always 'position' ourselves right to receive. If I fast and pray and worship and wait on him....
I have been in all those places. But I keep being drawn to books or accounts where God is pouring out all manner of blessings (see the latest blog on http://www.ffald-y-brenin.org/) and my heart just aches for more 'receiving'. Ever since I received a huge outpouring of the Spirit with such freedom and love at the age of 30, I cannot settle for the doddle that most of our Christian life is. Is this wrong? Or am I meant to be a perpetual 'seeker'?
Actually, there is a mid-way point between these two extremes - doddle and desire. And it is drinking daily. We can receive daily fresh bread, fresh water, another 'hug' of joy from our Abba. I think it is about a theology (belief grid) of 'presence'. Are we not 'in him' and therefore beloved of the Father? Is he not 'in us' and therefore his joy and peace and wisdom resides in us....? The secret is to access all these manifold blessings by a life of resting in them. Aha....
I am about to speak about this to a group of ministers. My husband said it sounded like 'spiritual speed dating'. Hmmmm. Not quite. Rather 'Heart hydration'. More when I have completed my prep!
Meantime - keep receiving. Think 'waterfall' and stand under it.
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