“We should remember that God always meets us where we are and slowly moves us along into deeper things.”
— Richard Foster, “Celebration of Discipline”
Someone recently found an old picture of me from college in 1978. I was 5’11”, 145 pounds, and had a large, curly “afro” (as they were called). I looked like a giant q-tip.
I don’t look like that anymore.
In 1978, I thought I knew how God worked, what he wanted from me, and how my life would work out. I thought I knew the “deeper things”.
I don’t think like that anymore.
God was real to me in 1978. But in the last 41 years, I have changed. I have had experiences I never could have dreamed about then.
I have had life experiences.
I have had God-experiences.
And I have come to realize that God is continually meeting with me in the present to draw me into his future.
That means more “deeper things”.
God loves me where I am right now. But, he is not content to let me stay here.
He has “deeper things”.
