Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: It's Impossible to Be Spiritually Mature, While Remaining Emotionally Immature by Peter Scazzero

Author:Peter Scazzero
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2014-08-12T00:00:00+00:00

The Christian Life as a Journey

The image of the Christian life as a journey captures our experience of following Christ like few others. Journeys involve movement, action, stops and starts, detours, delays, and trips into the unknown.

God called Abraham to leave his past life in Ur at the age of seventy-five and to embark on a journey. God called to Moses from a burning bush to begin a new phase of his journey at the age of eighty. God called the Israelites to leave Egypt and embark on a forty-year journey of personal transformation in the desert. God called David to leave the comforts of his job as a shepherd to conquer Goliath and to serve as king of Israel. God called Jeremiah to forty to fifty years of difficult work, standing firm for God’s values in the midst of a rebellious people.

Jesus called the twelve disciples to a journey that would change their lives forever. Judas, however, grew disillusioned and got stuck along the way. He couldn’t imagine what Jesus was up to, especially in surrendering himself to the authorities to be crucified! He could not see how anything good could emerge out of the disintegration of their powerful Palestinian ministry that was helping so many people. Jesus’ plan offended him.

Judas’s “stuckness” eventually resulted in him quitting Christ altogether, resulting in perhaps history’s saddest account of a wasted opportunity!

I meet many believers today who also are stuck. Some have dropped out altogether. Tragically, they fail to see the larger picture of the transforming work God seeks to do in them at their Wall. The disorientation and pain of their present circumstances blinds them. And they feel unsuccessful in finding other companions for such a journey.

What most don’t understand is that growth into maturity in Christ requires us to go through the Wall.

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