Divine Center

From Freedom of Simplicity (Richard Foster)

"It is one thing for God to come into us (and a very necessary thing), but it is quite another for us to come into God. In the first instance we are still the center of attention, in the second God is the focal point. When God comes into us we still have a cerain autonomy; when we come into God we have come IN. He is in all and through all and above all. This is no infantile pantheism, as if God could be captured in his creation; it is a marvelous majestic monotheism - one God from who all life is sustained. It is life out of the divine Center." (pg. 103)

What a shake up statement to the American evangelist! Our self-centered and individualistic western sentiment punches us in the gut when we recognize that it is not the individual inviting Jesus to come live in him as much as it is the individual absolving self into the Divine Center, God of all the universe. God help me to not place you in the center of my life, but to rather place myself into the center of your Life!