Fourteen essays. Fourteen returns to one question beneath all the others: Is the God I am living with actually the God who is?
We have walked through the God who is managed and the God who is met, through the weight of holiness and the patience of a God who refuses to be rushed. Through what it means to be seen by Him, and what it costs to stop performing for a version of Him that never existed.
Now we pause. Not to move on quickly, but to sit with what we have seen.
Before we begin the next series in two weeks, I want to leave you with one invitation.
Ask the Holy Spirit to show you the version of God you are actually living with. Not the one you would describe if someone asked. The one that shows up in the quiet. The one your prayers are truly addressed to. The one you perform for, hide from, or have quietly stopped trusting.
We absorb versions of God from the traditions that formed us, the churches we attended, the sermons that shaped us before we knew how to weigh what we were hearing. Some of those versions are incomplete. Some are distorted. And distortion feels normal when it is all you have ever known.
This is not a small prayer to pray.
But 2 Peter 1:3 tells us that “His divine power has granted us everything required for life and godliness through the knowledge of Him.” The word translated knowledge is epignosis. Not familiarity accumulated about Him. Knowledge formed through encounter, the kind that reshapes you from the inside out.
Which means this two-week rest is not a break from the work. It is the work.
He is faithful to meet you in that prayer. It may come through an essay you need to revisit. It may surface through a passage of Scripture that will not leave you alone. It may arrive as a quiet recognition that something you have long believed about Him does not actually reflect who He is.
That is the invitation for these next two weeks. Not more information. Honest seeing.
Series 2 begins Wednesday, May 13. It is called Practices Rooted: What Christian Practice Looks Like When Grounded in God’s Character. It begins where this series ends: with the question of who God actually is, and what it looks like to live from that encounter rather than manage it from a distance.
But it will land differently if you arrive having already asked the honest question.
Is the God you are living with actually the God who is?
Kemi
