having dinner with "monty"
9 chickweed lane is one of the comics that i follow every day… it’s mainly about edda, a young girl who until recently was a student at a catholic high school run by nuns, and her mom, who was a professor. yesterday’s comic sorta captures a sentiment that i’ve felt that i don’t think many people share. both of the guys shown are ministers, and they’re having a heart to heart about what it means to know God.
so the pastor refers to God as ‘monty’, but i think that’s just an extension of my idea - God should be someone i know by name, someone i want to “talk to” at the dinner table, not someone who i make petitions of throughout the day. i know, i know, multiple friends of mine have said that the faulty assumption behind my premise is that i want to treat God like a person, and not like He’s God, but i still think that there’s something to that - i should want to be as close to Him as that and i shouldn’t let the fact that He’s omnipotent and omnipresent and omniscient put distance between me and Him, but instead it should draw me closer to Him.
in my eyes, that’s done by “having dinner” with Him…
Heya Kimi,
I love that cartoon - I love that the one guy refers to God as “Monty” it warms my heart.
I just wanted to say I’m really proud of you for doing what you’re doing right now. It’s hard to break the habit of church/prayer/bible or whatever the habit is, for the sake of going deeper and getting/giving more to your relationship with God.
One thing that stuck out to me about this post - “Having dinner” with God. Funny how that fits in with “communion” and “The Last Supper.”
I think what you’re doing right now is opening the door Jesus talks about - the one He promises to come through in Revelation 3:20..."Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come into him and sup with him, and he with me.” You’ve heard the Spirit’s call for a deeper communion and you’re about to get the whole banquet of his Love! Woot!
Posted by laura on 03/24 at 10:24 AMThere was a book I read that talked about how our brokenness is a meeting-place, and that’s how God invited us to meet Him. It talked about how we can’t see the Almighty Lord Jesus Christ now crowned and with everything subject to Him, “but we see Jesus” (just “Jesus”, no title) who became like us and suffered for us. He invited us to meet Him in His place of brokenness. That author had a lot of “un-learning” to do… in the church he grew up in, it was nearly blasphemous to say “Jesus” without putting “the Lord” in front or some other title.
Another author (Tommy Tenney) said “He is still born in stables”. For me, our relationship began in a bathroom at my youth pastor’s place. He’d dared me to pray (after uncovering that I was afraid of believing for fear of being mistaken and getting hurt). So I took a bathroom break and while answering nature’s call, prayed. Maybe it was more like let out a long sigh out of my soul.
Awhile back Yoko was praying while in the ofuro (Japanese bath) and was in God’s presence. I think she was getting baptized by the Spirit that time. Among other things, she called Him “Papa” and God floored her when He said, “Finally, You called Me ‘Papa’!”
Anyhow, Kimi, God bless you! (Or rather, “Monty” will bless you!) All around the world, your brothers and sisters are facing the same questions and same hunger for God instead of religion. And we’re all heading to the mangers. Or bathrooms.
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