Celebration of Discipline, Richard J. Foster and Kutless

Sunday, June 27, 2010 at 9:41am

One of my favorite quotes, on the first page:  “The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.”

Not our station in life but our standing with God is of utmost importance.  Too often we worry about the temporal questions of life when we need to be on our knees praying for our character and for God’s righteousness to be in us and God’s will to be done through us.

Here is more of Foster’s first page:  “The classical Disciplines of the spiritual life call us to move beyond surface living into the depths. They invite us to explore the inner caverns of the spiritual realm. They urge us to be the answer to a hollow world….We must not be lead to believe that the Disciplines are only for spiritual giants and hence beyond our reach, or only for contemplatives who devote all their time to prayer and meditation. Far from it. God intends the Disciplines of the spiritual life to be for ordinary human beings: people who have jobs, who care for children, who wash dishes and mow lawns. in fact, the Disciplines are best exercised in the midst of our relationships with our husband or wife, our brothers and sisters, our friends and neighbors.”

“The deep calls out to deep” reminds me of a favorite song by Kutless:

All who are thirsty
All who are weak
Just come to the fountain
Dip your heart in the stream of life

Let the pain and the sorrow
Be washed away
In the waves of his mercy
As the deep cries out to deep

We sing

Come,

Lord

Jesus,

Come