Pursuing Holiness

This past week saw the end of summer youth camping and the end of the season with a family camp.  This point in the summer can be tough!  It can be tough because I move from being completely involved with programming to being completely involved in nothing.  My duties decrease significantly and my role at camp diminishes for a few weeks.  This is both a needed time and a difficult time to get through.

This time is needed because I NEED TO REST!  Summer is long and exhausting, and it needs a sabbath time.  The next month or so will be that!  I will enjoy spending time with my wife, getting back into running, and catching up on some reading for fun!  I do look forward to this time with great anticipation.

However, this time can be difficult because I move form a time of constant reliance upon God to a time where it becomes easy to exclude Him from my daily life.  And if I am really honest, I have already started to exclude Him from my day to day living.  Sure, I have maintained my quiet time, but it has been more out of duty or appearance rather than out of devotion or love.  As a result of this exclusion, I have not been feeling close to God or that He plays a significant role in my life, and this has lead to questions of where is God and why can I not feel Him.  And the answer dawned on me the other day.  I cannot feel God at the moment because I am not actively seeking Him out.  I am not pursuing Him every day.  I am waiting for Him to speak to me in a way that will knock my socks off.  For me to hear from God, I have to actively and purposefully seek Him out this fall.  God will not grow me spiritually if I am just sitting around waiting for Him to do something.  I need to be active in my walk. 

This fall I am starting a journey in Luke.  I will start in chapter 15 and will potentially expand that reading into the rest of the Gospel as well as Acts.  Hopefully you will join me!

In His service,  Crazy Pete