Making God the Center: Beyond Lip-Service Spirituality

So never refer to yourself truly without God being in the center of the narrative. Then what happens to our stories? He becomes our focus. Then the life of this little old me is not that important, and we get away from our lip service spirituality, which is still me, me, me. In spite of even if the topic is to be empty of the me, it is still me, me. It's like poison, antidote, poison, antidote, poison, antidote. And how many years will we do it? Sometime we have to let it go. Let go of this me and surrender to God. Otherwise, this body will be seventy, eighty, whatever, we'll have the same conversation. All of us, this one will be on the dying deathbed, we'll have the same conversation. Just bring God into the main frame of your life. Nothing will happen without that. Everything can happen in God's grace, but most likely nothing will happen unless you try to surrender your narratives to Him fully.

How? Make Him the narrative. Live as if God is always here, because He is. How to make Him the center of the narrative? Is God here right now or no? Are we living like that? Is our story like that? Never, hardly ever. See, so that is the denial of the truth. That is what I mean, that's what I'm raging against: a Godless spirituality. So we are just in denial that He's here. So just like, 'Okay, what should I do? What should I do?' Ask for His help, because He's here. It's not easy to explain these things. I hope I'm making some inroad somewhere at least.

One child had a good question. They said that if I don't get angry or irritated, then what if my children get spoiled? So that is symptomatic of the Godless spirituality. She didn't intend it like that, but sometimes we forget that God is aware of everything. He knows that we are not getting angry and irritated because we are working hard to be with Him. So do you really feel like because we did that, He'll allow our children to get spoiled? That's just to claim that He's just powerless, so He doesn't care, He doesn't love us, He's not Dayalu. Please have your trust in Him that if you really resolve to make the changes so that you can be with God, then don't think that God is not with you, He's not watching, He's not aware, He doesn't care, or He doesn't have time. All this is nonsense.