And we can choose not to allow God to influence our beliefs.
We can believe what we already believed and then approach the altar of God and
hope to leave unchanged. By saying, these things are the things that God cares
about and these are our concerns. We can walk into this space and leave our
cares and troubles for the world out there and come in here and just talk about
our personal feelings or piety and talk about things like faith and hope and
grace and churchy words.
And you can come up to this altar and take bread from some
man in a dress and then you can go back out into the world and forget about all
this stuff and leave it here and not allow this to influence that and not allow
that to influence this. Which leads me to the question. What part of your life
does not belong to God?
What part of your life does God not care about? I encourage
you today when you go home, take out a piece of paper and a pen and make a
list. Or pull your phone out, grab
your little notepad on your phone and go ahead and make a list
of the things in your life that God doesn't care about.
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