Learning about God's personality has been a great reminder to me this week. It's so easy to get caught up in all the wrong things this time of year--cleaning house, buying gifts, school finishing, vacation from work, family visiting--and that's just my list! It's also easy to get focused on the wrong parts of the holiday--decorating, buying food, baking, Santa...instead of the season of Advent.
Obviously, the 5 "p's" of God's personality I touched on this week are only a part of his entire being. I bet you could focus on one attribute a day and it would take you all year. But the five I did talk about--power, peace, pausing, planner, and present (generosity) are pretty good ones to start with.
I will finish this week with the same questions I started with in the context of the coming year. How could you apply these to your quiet time in 2008?
What do you already know about the personality of God? What do you need a better understanding of?
How have you learned about God's personality?
What does having a better understanding of God mean for you in your life?
How will we teach it to our children (whether it's your own or nieces and nephews or cousins or neighbors...)?
"I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow to attain to the resurrection from the dead." Philippians 3:10-11
"But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him." 2 Corinthians 2:14
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