Last night Greg and I attended our first session of Old Testament Survey at Global Bible Institute in Modesto. It was great! My brain got exercised very well. It was fast paced, which I love. I took so many notes my hand was sore. Fascinating. I'm actually looking forward to the homework, though I'm just auditing the class, I might just do all the work anyway and switch to taking the class for credit. Who knows?
Onward to Holy Discontent. Bill Hybels says that the powerful, spiritual congruence that connected Moses' priorities to the priorities of God as his "holy discontent."
"If you expose yourself to all that's broken in our world but neglect to view the brokenness from heaven's perspective (which promises that everything is in the process of being restored), then you'll get sucked into an impossible, downward spiral of aggravation and anger. Things will seem so bleak that you'll wind up taking up residence inside your firestorm of frustration instead of allowing it to propel you toward positive action.
Once that frustration and anger is understood as being your holy discontent, though - your spiritual connection to the God who's working to fix everything - it's as if an enormous wave of positive energy gets released inside you. Much like Popeye in his spinach-infused state, you become an unstoppable force for good in the world. This energy causes you to act on the dissatisfaction that's been brewing deep within your soul and compels you to say yes to joining forces with God so that the darkness and depravity around you gets pushed back. This supernatural supply of energy allows you to move forward past all the natural human-nature responses and enter instead into a life viewed from God's point of view. In other words, your perspective shifts from that which your eyes can see to that which God tells you is true."
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