GODOLOGY, WEEK 9
“The patience of God found greatest expression on the cross of Christ. It was a moment of reckless carnage – when the cleanest became the filthy.” (p. 123)
I’m personally very thankful that God is a patient and longsuffering God. I could relate with Christian’s discussion on how we often have very short tempers, and I need reminders of how patient God is with me. Are you aware of how much God puts up with from us? We whine, complain, and argue because He doesn’t move according to our timetables. Yet God is still patient with us; He does not destroy us or give up on us. He works in and through us to make us more like Christ each day. I think that is why we need the discipline of solitude. If we don’t stop, relax, reflect and seek God in the silence, then we begin to think our little lives are all that exists out there. So here is the question: how can you make solitude a part of your relationship with God?
I was thinking, God must handle his anger well, after all the stuff we put him through. Something else Christian mentions that the key to solitude, is not escaping the mountain, but bringing it into the valley. So no matter where we are at, we can still bring the stillness of the mountain, into our busy everyday life.
How I can make solitude part of my life is when I am not doing anything. Like when I am waiting to leave for school, or simply at school when you have some free time, or during 7th period for me. And during the summer, I have all kinds of time to do it when Im bored. So that is my solitude for me.