Reaching for the Invisible God

Reaching for the Invisible God
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Reaching for the Invisible God

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How does a relationship with God really work? How do I relate to a God who is invisible, when I'm never quite sure he's there? How do I know him? How do I communicate with him? How do I live my life growing in my understanding of him, living more and more with a conscious awareness of him, doing more of those things he indicates are good for me--and others? Many have found the bright promises people make about God don't work. Others have seen God's promises work, but have stumbled, and want to believe again. Author Philip Yancey pointed out in Disappointment with God some of the false expectations people have in God and his workings. It's time now to turn the coin. In Reaching for the Invisible God Yancey answers the question What Can We Expect from God? with a surprising investigation of how the Christian life really does work. The average person often finds that what they hear in a sermon or read in a Bible corresponds to little of what they experience. Why? When others do experience great things from God, those who sense "business as usual" in their spiritual life ask, "What's wrong with me?" God doesn't do certain things he could--heal, mend, or change--but what does he do? How does God work, and how does he work with me? In taking on these questions Yancey continues his quest to help readers get close to the core of Christian truth and experience. Reaching for the Invisible God develops what we can expect from God by taking readers to six foundational areas: the thirst or hunger for God, God himself, the Spirit, faith, growth, and personal transformation in the spiritual life. Reaching for the Invisible God also explores the personality of God, the choice God made in limiting himself, and the great condescension he made as the Holy Spirit, choosing to live in human beings. Finally, Reaching for the Invisible God comes to an appropriate finish as Yancey writes about growth, about childlike living under God apart from unrealistic expectations, legalisms, and unhealthy dependence. The goal is mature childlikeness, with no preconceptions, an ability to accept gifts from God, and trust, which lead to the responses of love, sacrifice, the denial of self, and servant leadership. In Reaching for the Invisible God Philip Yancey writes with honesty about the Christian life, about how to get along with God, how to believe again, and about the Reaching for the Invisible God of faith, or the things people never told you about the Christian life. It's the real scoop and straight talk about the truth--like an operating manual for faith. It is for the reader seeking to be honest with God. And it will help anyone wanting to explain to friends what life as a Christian is all about.

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Author Philip Yancey asks the question How does a relationship with God work? and answers it with an investigation that turns up surprising and satisfying answers about life and communication with an invisible God.

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Life has a way of toppling our presumptions as Christians. Just when we're confident we understand God, the bottom drops out. We lose a loved one. Our health fails. Or our own intellect begins to shout objections it once only whispered.Where is God with the answers? Why is he so distant so often? How do we bridge the gap? After all, God is not a physical being like us -- so how are we supposed to relate to him? If your hunger for God often seems more frustrating than satisfying ... If you've sensed a disturbing disparity between theology and experience, between God's promises and life's realities ...Or if you've seen God's promises work, but have stumbled and want to believe again ... then this book is for you. Award-winning author Philip Yancey articulates the fundamental questions that confront us all: How does life with God really work? How do I communicate with God? If God heals, why hasn't he healed my loved one? If he changes people, why am I still the same? How does God work -- and how does he work for me?Yancey takes us on a journey into personal faith where there are no sacred cows that can't be discussed. Intellectual doubt, hurt, risk, dark times, baffling providence, the mysteries and paradoxes of life ... the very things that threaten to capsize our trust can become the catalysts for a deeper, wiser, more mature yet childlike faith in the end.With trademark candor, Yancey trims away false expectations of God -- and in their place, reveals what we can expect of him. Here is a probing, personal look at six gut issues: What God is really like? What it means to desire God? How a relationship with an invisible God works. What faith looks like in actual operation. What stages we go through in personal growth. What we can expect in spiritual transformation.If you're ready for a spiritual journey that reconciles faith with honesty, start here. Reaching for the Invisible God helps you move from tough questions to a deeper relationship with a God you can trust, love, and live for with all your heart.

Description of Philip Yancey, author of Reaching for the Invisible God:

Reaching for the Invisible God offers deep, satisfying insights that affirm and dignify the questions we are sometimes afraid to ask. Award-winning author Philip Yancey explores six foundational areas: our thirst for God, faith during times when God seems unavailable, the nature of God himself, our personal relationship with God, stages along the way, and the end goal of spiritual transformation. Honest and deeply personal, here is straight talk on Christian living for the man or woman who wants more than pat answers to life's imponderables. Untimately, Yancey shifts the focus from our questions to the One who offers himself in answer. The God who invites us to reach for him - and find.