Table & Well Podcast
HOSTS: Tennison & Ginelle Barry
“LIFE UNDER, OVER, FROM, and FOR GOD each seeks to use God to achieve some other goal. God is seen as a means to an end. For example, LIFE FROM GOD uses him to supply our material desires. LIFE OVER GOD uses him as the source of principles or laws. LIFE UNDER GOD tries to manipulate God through obedience to secure blessings and avoid calamity. And LIFE FOR GOD uses him and his mission to gain a sense of direction and purpose.”
“But LIFE WITH GOD is different because its goal is not to use God; its goal is God. He ceases to be a device we employ or a commodity we consume. Instead, God himself becomes the focus of our desire. But before we can really desire God, we must have a clear understanding of who he is and what he is like. The reason most people gravitate to one of the other four postures is because they’ve never received a clear vision of who God is, and so they settle for something less.”
In this episode, Tennison and Ginelle’s conversation centers around what living a LIFE FROM GOD looks like, presented in the book ‘WITH: Reimagining The Way You Relate to God’ by Skye Jethani. LIFE FROM GOD is the third posture that Skye Jethani talks about. People that live in this posture believe that God exists to supply what we need or desire. Receiving God’s gifts is the entirety of our relationship with Him. They have reduced God to a Genie to grant us our desires. Living here Feeds into our selfish nature; it cuts off the redemptive purpose of pain and in our pursuit of distraction by comfort, we forget the One who alone is able to deliver us, and we seek lesser things. When this happens, we believe that what we want is what God wants for us. We then truly miss out on the good gifts that the Father wants to give us.
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