When we are hungry to experience God’s loving presence near us and believe we are searching for God, it is important to ask ourselves whether we are seeking God or pursuing spiritual experience.
We do get lonesome for God and can feel isolated and confused. But sometimes our search is not as much for God it is for spiritual adventure.
Perhaps we are bored. We might like to see ourselves as important spiritual persons and think a particular kind of spiritual experience is one of the criteria necessary for others to view us in this way.
Perhaps we would like God to heal someone through our prayer or bring about instantaneous major life changes in us or in someone else with whom we have been praying more as a kind of witness to our supposed godliness than as an overflowing of God’s compassion.
This is an excerpt from a book Holy Invitations by Jeannette A. Bakke. If you would like to buy this book please click here.