The Organic God by Margaret Feinberg (Part 2)

Does your heart dance at the very thought of God?  Does your faith create a glowing light so others can find their way?  When you think of the Lord's attributes do you list bighearted, generous, kind, talkative & beautiful?  Maybe not. 

If life has somehow obscured your view of God, if your faith feels tinged with smog and you crave some of his pure breath, then Margaret Feinberg's newest book may be a good read for you.

    This is Margaret. Her speaking schedule is available on her website.

Her about-to-be-released book, the organic God is "an intimate and inspiring portrayal of what it looks like to hunger after God, to seek him, to hear his voice, and at the end of the day, to still sit in humble wonder of who he is and what he could possibly do next."

It’s a recommendation for stripping away all the things that stand in the way of our relationship with God – removing the additives, the artificial sweeteners, the processed formulas.

Margaret, who will travel most of this year speaking, graciously offered to answer some questions to reflect her heart in writing the organic God:

Can we really get our relationship with the Lord to be stripped of it's pollutants, additives and other distractions?    We will always face pollutants, additives and distractions, they are a part of our fallen world. But just as we make wise choices in the supermarket about what foods will ultimately be consumed in our bodies, we can make wise choices about what we consume spiritually and what will eventually feed our spirit.

It's easy to picture the spiritual fallen world because the physical world reflects it so well.  Yes, there are beautiful things here on the planet, things God created.  But often they are marred by the realities of the brokenness of life and the world. 

If we were to get specific about pollutants, additives & distractions, could you identify some?  The list is so long. Pollutants, additives, and distractions include listening to what everyone else says about God instead of discovering him for yourself, living your life based off other people’s prayers instead of praying your own, and filling your life with so much busyness that either stillness or silence become uncomfortable.

In describing the busyness of life, it seems we have a tendency to always be filling ourselves up, either with what is profitable or with what is unprofitable.  When you mention stillness and silence it reminds me of how uncomfortable it can feel to walk into a noisy space or an over-cluttered room.  It sort of screams at you - too much, too much.  

So what shall be our defense against the noise and against the cluttering up of our faith in the future?  Scripture is so crucial to our relationship with God. It’s our filter, our purifier, our healthy foundation.  Without the Bible, we are left to our own devices, which have a natural bent toward self-destruction (also known as sin). The Bible purifies us, cleanses us and allows us to grow vibrantly.

More of Margaret and the organic God in Part 3.