Christian Life

I am continually in prayer asking the Lord to grow me in holiness and as the kids get older it seems to require of me a more fervent prayer. I know I've posted before that having children really showed me the depths of my sin that I may not have learned about myself had I not had children. The more that I see my sin and experience the grace of God, the more grace that I need to extend to the boys. As Ethan gets older, I'm very convicted about the importance of him seeing me always in the word and in prayer. One reason is because the more that I "hide God's word in my heart" the more scripture I am able to spontaneously share with Ethan when he has a problem, fears or need for discipline. The past year, God has been gracious to place people, circumstances, scriptures, and even books by Christians that have helped me in this goal.

There are a few authors who write a great deal about growing in holiness including Bridges and Piper but if you go back to early church history Augustine wrote passionately about this subject.

He says, "The whole life of a good Christian is a holy desire." Or in Piper's words, "the key to Christian living is a thirst and a hunger for God." If you truly love someone, you want to spend all your time with them getting to know them and just being in their presence. This is my desire that I would love God so much that it would be a "desperation to be ravished for the sake of worship and holiness (Piper)." And that I would set an example for the boys that they would grow up and look back on their childhood and that the strongest memory they have is of their mother's faith.

"You will show me the way of life, granting me the joy of your presence and the pleasures of living with you forever."
Psalm 16:11