Pilgrim Soldier

I’m still musing on the thoughts that have been stirred up by my Pentecost sermon, about us getting outside the Church. At the same time I am currently reading, very slowly, Chick Yuill’s new book Others. This particular quote leapt off the page at me as I was reading:

Perhaps we are a little too slow to recognise the willingness of God to act outside the structures and concerns of the church when men and women genuinely seek him.”¹

I’m desperately trying to get out of the mindset that says that we know how God will do things. We seem to expect Him to act in the ways we want Him to, whether that be in a staid traditional way that smacks of formality, or whether it be in an ultra-charismatic, knock-you-off-your-feet type way. We talk about seeing God through the beauty of creation yet can fail to see Him in the lives of those who He created. All too often we seem to want to confine Him and put Him boxes of our own making.

So I am determined to strive to see God outside of the boxes I’ve put Him into, which hopefully means that I will constantly be surprised by the way He works!