Every Wednesday morning, the staff pastors in the office meet with our Senior Pastor for MAG time. (MAG means "Mentoring and Accountability Group".) We are going through the book by Rev Edmund Chan titled Mentoring Paradigms. One very useful insight on page 54 (Paradigm 8, Three Arenas of Mentoring: The Devotional, Domestic and Development Life) are these words:
Quiet Time does not automatically become easier as one grows older. On fact, it becomes harder. Why? Because one can browse through God's Word quickly and pick up a thought or two without much meditation and intimacy with God.
One can have the routine and the mere discipline without the encounter and the wonder. One can read the Word of God and miss the God of the Word. One can go on serving the Lord without devotion. Christian life and ministry can be faked all too easily. But God calls us to be authentic.
Guilty as charged! It is a good milestone check right now for those of us who have been faithfully journalling for the last 5 or 6 months. It CAN easily become a routine and we miss the spirit of what we are trying to achieve and that is knowing the God of the Word. We are achievers by nature and can be driven by the need to succeed. It is good to ask ourselves, are we knowing the God of the Word better. Are are loving and serving Him more? Are we a more spirit-filled person? Can our closest family members and friends see the fruit of the Spirit more and more in our lives? Do others see more of Christ in us? Does God take pleasure over our lives?
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