Gary Michael Hassig's Contemplation: Only the Crucified are Truly Alive PDF

By Gary Michael Hassig

CONTEMPLATION is all approximately realizing God extra deeply. maybe you have got come to where in lifestyles the place, regardless of all of the advantages that include following Christ, you actually need extra of God than what you will have skilled. There’s a starvation that can’t be crammed through Christian tune or Bible analyzing or the rest. and maybe you've began to realize that perhaps that’s now not an absence of thankfulness, yet that it’s God himself stirring up that deeper longing in you, spurring you directly to discover a higher intensity on your courting with him than you’ve noticeable prior to. Worship, prayer, and different religious actions can convey you to some extent of closeness to God, yet they go away you at God’s doorstep, which nonetheless feels a lot too distant from him. and also you start to observe there’s a distinction among the issues of God, and God himself. You cry out, God, i need extra! And the extra you get, the fewer pleasurable it's, and also you begin to observe it’s no more issues or perhaps extra advantages; there’s a starvation that not anything yet God himself can fill; not anything yet extra of God will do. And back, you could realize that this wish is coming, no longer from you, yet from the Spirit of God.

That’s precisely the position many all through historical past have come to: a deep religious starvation. sooner or later in heritage, might be centuries earlier than Christ, somebody used to be meditating on what it potential to attend on God, and learned anything profoundly strong. they discovered that they can simply sit down in God’s presence and direct their longing to him, ignoring all sensory enter and their very own recommendations, wants and feelings—and after it slow, whatever occurred deep inside of. They couldn’t particularly placed it into phrases, yet they knew past the shadow of a doubt that it was once from God. and so they found that in the event that they did this frequently, God replaced them. They realized the inner most form of courting with God to be had to humanity--contemplation--and the data of God past all suggestions: what many within the historical Church referred to as "knowing God as he's in himself."

CONTEMPLATION is set the traditional perform of Christian silent prayer and its smooth introductory shape, centering prayer. Contemplative prayer has been a part of Christian perform because the days of the early Church; the writer lines the perform to Jesus and to the Jewish non secular practices of the centuries sooner than Jesus. He additionally explores numerous points of contemplative spirituality akin to lectio divina, an historical scripture meditation perform. not like such a lot books just about contemplative prayer which come from the Catholic history and viewpoint, CONTEMPLATION is written by means of an Evangelical, for Evangelicals, yet with a love for the traditional traditions of Christianity and a view to the therapeutic of the entire Church and the arriving jointly of Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox believers in a single robust, loose, grace-filled, Spirit-controlled, loving Church below the management of Christ.

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