“So C.S. Lewis writes, our faith is not a matter of hearing what Christ said long ago and ‘trying to carry it out.’ Rather, ‘The real Son of God is at your side. He is beginning to turn you into the same kind of thing as Himself. He is beginning, so to speak, to ‘inject’ His kind of life and thought, His Zoe [life] into you, beginning to turn the tin soldier into a live man. The part of you that does not like it is the part that is still tin.’”

Dallas Willard, "The Divine Conspiracy"

It's cool how God uses books and writers to completely open up Scripture in new ways. I definitely recommend the above book, it's really refreshing. I have had time to read a lot in the last week, and God met with me. He is showing me that He is active and living, and wants me to seek Him and knowing Him intimately. It is hard, and the things He shows us are hard, but it is so good.

Be encouraged that our God reigns right now, in the midst of this world and culture, and in each of ours lives. Jesus is alive and is moving right now. Instead of worrying about our daily problems and questions constantly, as I have often been doing lately, let's simply seek knowing Him. All the other things will fall into place.

“God’s desire for us is that we should live in him. He sends among us the Way to himself. That shows what, in his heart of hearts, God is really like – indeed, what reality is really like. In its deepest nature and meaning our universe is a community of boundless and totally competent love.”