If one could take a time out from the rigors of this world to solely focus on the doings, the commands, in the Bible, would that please God and usher God’s joy into our lives? When the writer of Deuteronomy says, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength (Deut. 6: 4)”, practically, what did he mean to say?
Are we to
become spiritual hermits who withdraw from life’s complications and retire from
the rigors of this life? May it be
suggested that such a life style throughout history has never resulted in
visible, discernable God blessings, those blessings promised. Our only
conclusion must be that either no one has lived out this commandment or the
commandment itself is duplicitous or deceptive.
Maybe, there is a third alternative. Could it be that there is no Cosmic Disciplinarian God? Maybe the God above our Gods is above our meager human understandings of God likeness. Maybe, all that God expects of us is to, in faith, open our spiritual ears. When one hears from the God above our Gods, the joy of God is overflowing and the world in which one lives will change.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca
