Explosion:
• The result of chemical reactions instantaneously
• The faster reactants (explosives) undergo change, the more violent the explosion!
The principle of “explosion" found in chemistry 101 classrooms across the country, can easily be applied to changes one undergoes in a lifetime. It is no surprise to anyone just how unabashed simple devotion to God can and will transform a life. I submit that in order to sustain a true shift in lifestyle without experiencing the rapid rise and subsequently quick dissipation of an explosive religious life is best illustrated by a measured and continuous prayer life and study time (simple devotion). For many, simple devotion on the surface seems both elementary and common. It would surprise readers of this blog and others to discover that a lifestyle of maintaining the burning embers of daily prayer and study of the word of God far outweighs the explosive jumpstart of radical multi-day fasts or a few intermittently dispersed days filled with hours of prayer. These types of radical and generally infrequent practices usually yield spiritual fireworks that are short-lived. The seemingly rudimentary practice of simple devotion truly is the bedrock of spiritual maturity by God’s estimation. There is something to be said for a seasoned individual that is not swayed by the promotions and demotions of life. It is clear in the natural progression of experience that the frequent declarations of “it’s the end of the world” from a hormone-fueled pre-teen are very different from the “been there done that” attitude of the middle aged. Such is the same within the kingdom of God. Regardless of age, I believe that those doing the greatest exploits continually in the estimation of God and not man, are those tethered firmly to a daily prayer life. I recently heard a quote that fueled this blog post, and I will leave you with this prophetic thought: “The common thing has become uncommon, and will produce the uncommon.”
• The result of chemical reactions instantaneously
• The faster reactants (explosives) undergo change, the more violent the explosion!
The principle of “explosion" found in chemistry 101 classrooms across the country, can easily be applied to changes one undergoes in a lifetime. It is no surprise to anyone just how unabashed simple devotion to God can and will transform a life. I submit that in order to sustain a true shift in lifestyle without experiencing the rapid rise and subsequently quick dissipation of an explosive religious life is best illustrated by a measured and continuous prayer life and study time (simple devotion). For many, simple devotion on the surface seems both elementary and common. It would surprise readers of this blog and others to discover that a lifestyle of maintaining the burning embers of daily prayer and study of the word of God far outweighs the explosive jumpstart of radical multi-day fasts or a few intermittently dispersed days filled with hours of prayer. These types of radical and generally infrequent practices usually yield spiritual fireworks that are short-lived. The seemingly rudimentary practice of simple devotion truly is the bedrock of spiritual maturity by God’s estimation. There is something to be said for a seasoned individual that is not swayed by the promotions and demotions of life. It is clear in the natural progression of experience that the frequent declarations of “it’s the end of the world” from a hormone-fueled pre-teen are very different from the “been there done that” attitude of the middle aged. Such is the same within the kingdom of God. Regardless of age, I believe that those doing the greatest exploits continually in the estimation of God and not man, are those tethered firmly to a daily prayer life. I recently heard a quote that fueled this blog post, and I will leave you with this prophetic thought: “The common thing has become uncommon, and will produce the uncommon.”
