For most of us, we wake up and we think about what we want to do that day and what we have to do that day. However, what if we woke up and looked at our day from a different perspective?
Greg Hawkins says that instead of thinking about what we want our day to look like, we should ask God what He wants our day to look like.
“There’s a shift in my thinking and my behavior. I don’t want to go through my days thinking here’s my list and I’m hoping God comes along and helps me along the way.”
If we live our lives with God following, we will miss our lives all together.
“The practice is to be still and know. When you slow down your life, and invite God to speak you know and invite God to make Himself known in that moment, He does. But if we’re going that fast He can’t.”
The pace of our life has to change when we turn from living with God following us as opposed to living a life of following God’s lead.
“Jesus might have been in a big hurry all the time, but I don’t sense that from reading the Gospels.”
According to Greg, a life led by God is marked by spending more time reflecting on Scripture, spending more time in solitude, and just slowing down.
“As we practice, it becomes easier honestly, because first and foremost, we believe He’s with us because that’s the hurdle we have to climb. Does He really want to go through my whole day with me? I’m not sure I want to do a day with Him. I do believe if you pursue God. If you knock, if you seek, you will find him, and you will get to the place where you realize, I actually would like him to be around all day long.”
Greg L. Hawkins is a man of passion. He loves opera. He loves living out God’s love. And he loves Jesus. It was a desire to empower people to build Christian community that prompted Hawkins to leave a successful and profitable career with the consulting firm McKinsey & Company for an unpaid role at Willow Creek Community Church near Chicago. After a few years, Hawkins became executive pastor at Willow Creek where he served alongside Bill Hybels for nearly 20 years.
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