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Sunday afternoon found me so wound up, I thought I was going to pop. Emotion of weariness and disappointment on many levels had been building up over weeks and weeks and especially the last few days. I did not need someone to say, “Sally, you need to trust God.” or “Sally, it is immature to be grumpy!” Those words might have made me explode!
Joy came over to me, wrapped her arms around me and said, “Did you know that Plato thought you could shake bad feelings out of a person, that that is why mothers rock their children back and forth?” She then jiggled me around a bit and we fell apart in laughter. I do think her shaking did some good.
Finally, we put on loud music from a sound list she had made and danced with all our hearts for about 20 minutes. I actually felt better. :)
Today, I talk with Joel about his new book, Sensing God. I have been reading it a little every day and it is having such a sweet, encouraging effect on my heart. God created us to find our solace and satisfaction in Him through the Word as well as what He created for our pleasure. Drawing close to Him requires that we engage in touch, our hearing, our sight, our taste, our touch and so much more. God created us to know more about Him by experiencing Him with all that we are, all that He created us to be.
Did God Give Us Our Senses So that We Could Enjoy Him More?
Sensing God is a discovery of Jesus in all of the sensory points embedded into each of us. It shows how the holiest acts in our daily lives are often the simplest: reveling in the beauty of nature; listening to our favorite music; eating a nourishing meal with family. These are potentially heartbeats of a living faith, and when we learn to recognize and respond to God’s goodness in them, it draws us into redemptive participation with Him, the source of all beauty.
Joel shares personal stories and paints vivid imagery so that we, too, can taste and see (and hear and touch and smell) that the Lord is good. In our exploration, we meet Jesus, who invites us to enjoy his presence and proclaim his visible, tangible, and touchable gospel. We physically experience the glory of our Creator and at the same time, we make that encounter a testimony to a broken world that is desperate for restoration. We are encouraged to get the good dirt of God’s holy world under our nails.
Together, we will come into contact with the God who reaches out to us with His eternal truth through the goodness of beauty. Will you join the journey? Come and learn how to truly worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.
Be sure to get your copy today. You will be so glad you did.
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