When Tip of the Iceberg
Spirituality
Doesn't Cut it Anymore
Monday, December 29, 2014
Jeff Lampl
Jeff Lampl
“I
pray that out of his glorious riches (God) may strengthen you with power
through his Spirit in your inner being”
Ephesians 3:14(NIV2011)
through his Spirit in your inner being”
Ephesians 3:14(NIV2011)
The tip of the iceberg represents the self that you present to
others and the nine tenths of the Iceberg below the surface represent the part
of you that you want to keep hidden from others.
Yet, as today’s passage from Ephesians makes clear, it
is there, below the surface, that God does his deepest, most profound, most
lasting change. It is there,
in the depths of our being where our beliefs, attitudes, fears, hopes, dreams,
angers, pain, and joys were forged by our experiences and heritage from long
before we found ourselves in our mother’s womb until the present moment.
If we are ever to be whole (holy) as God is whole (holy), it will begin
with God in Christ flooding our inner world with his cleansing, refining,
forgiving and transforming Love.
Can you imagine it?! The
worst of me known by God yet all of me, not just the good in me, but me, as I
am, good and bad all mixed together, loved, accepted, delighted in by the Lord
of all Creation! Comprehending
this elicits the WOW that bursts out when I discover that the most unbelievable
of all possible things turns out to be actually true!
On Sunday the journey begins toward a life-long encounter where a
real you can meet a real God in a real way.
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