Me: Y’all are two peas in a pod.

Prodigal: I agree with that.

This is from the book Celebration of Discipline by Richard J. Foster

Human beings seem to have a perpetual tendency to have somebody else talk to God for them. We are content to have the message second hand. One of Israel’s fatal mistakes was their insistence upon having a human king rather than resting in the theocratic rule of God over them. We can detect a note of sadness in the word of the Lord, “They have rejected me from being king over them” (1 Sam. 8:7). The history of history of religion is the story of an almost desperate scramble to have a king, a mediator, a priest, a pastor, a go-between. In this way we do not need to go to God ourselves. Such an approach saves us from the need to change, for to be in the presence of God is to change.

Right now there is someone who is fighting going to the Lord. They are in fear. They fear the answer, they fear no answer. They fear how they will look when they approach the Lord. If only that person could see the love of God. If that person understood the truth of the word that says I will never leave you or forsake you. I pray for that person. I pray.

Proverbs 17:22

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

wwwfaithincounseling.org