Invitation To A Journey Mulholland Summary
Invitation to a Journey
Robert Mulholland (pp 15-44)
As I began to read this excerpt, I was initially taken aback by the “concept” that we
would break down our relationship with Christ in such a way that you could apparently
place it in a box. I began to look at the “process of transformation” as just another
persons personal idea of how to explain something very private and personal, such as my
relationship with Christ. Trying to keep an open mind to a moderately unread, foreign
position, I began to understand that there is a very solid biblical principle in this reading.
As I reflect on the stages of being transformed, I can see where, specifically, GOD has
allowed my walk with Him to become more personal, at the …show more content…
When I realize that it is not about immediate gratification, but about a
process, a period of growth just an infant becomes an adult, so is the spiritual process
(growth) He allows in His children’s lives. I am continually being shaped and transformed
into the likeness of Christ, I believe God has chosen each path and allowed each trial very
specifically for me, knowing exactly what it was going to take to bring me to Him. The
hardest aspect of walking consistently with Christ is my inability at times to give up the
control I so desperately feel the need to hold onto. I struggle with the idea at times to not
have a personal “back up” plan, an exit strategy, JUST IN CASE God messes up, or worse
yet, God cannot (more likely) God will not provide my desires, my needs.
It is in these times of my life that I feel the most tempted. The need to know I can control
the outcome of any given situation in life somehow has always given me comfort. A
sense of power, self-dependence and assurance in myself that can only be measured by
the world and the system of approval and recognition I was raised to believe in. I
Robert Mulholland (pp 15-44)
As I began to read this excerpt, I was initially taken aback by the “concept” that we
would break down our relationship with Christ in such a way that you could apparently
place it in a box. I began to look at the “process of transformation” as just another
persons personal idea of how to explain something very private and personal, such as my
relationship with Christ. Trying to keep an open mind to a moderately unread, foreign
position, I began to understand that there is a very solid biblical principle in this reading.
As I reflect on the stages of being transformed, I can see where, specifically, GOD has
allowed my walk with Him to become more personal, at the …show more content…
When I realize that it is not about immediate gratification, but about a
process, a period of growth just an infant becomes an adult, so is the spiritual process
(growth) He allows in His children’s lives. I am continually being shaped and transformed
into the likeness of Christ, I believe God has chosen each path and allowed each trial very
specifically for me, knowing exactly what it was going to take to bring me to Him. The
hardest aspect of walking consistently with Christ is my inability at times to give up the
control I so desperately feel the need to hold onto. I struggle with the idea at times to not
have a personal “back up” plan, an exit strategy, JUST IN CASE God messes up, or worse
yet, God cannot (more likely) God will not provide my desires, my needs.
It is in these times of my life that I feel the most tempted. The need to know I can control
the outcome of any given situation in life somehow has always given me comfort. A
sense of power, self-dependence and assurance in myself that can only be measured by
the world and the system of approval and recognition I was raised to believe in. I