Ooo boy. This week has shaped up to be a real doozy. To be honest, the last thing I can imagine doing today is writing something meaningful from a spiritual perspective because I’m currently trying to get my own act together!

So I’ll steal something that someone else talked about that has been worming its way into my subconscious. One of the speakers at the Whiteboard Sessions last week was Vince Antonucci, and I picked up his book I Became a Christian and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt and started reading it on the plane. Wow, what a cool book. The thing that struck me was the chapter where he talks about not just serving Christ out of religion, not just “having a relationship” with Jesus like he was some chum from college, but actually abiding in Christ and letting Him abide in you. He compared this to a baby in its mother’s womb. It would be foolish to ask the baby (if it could talk!) if it had a “relationship” with its mother. Relationship? That’s the understatement of the year.

It got me thinking. How much do I abide in Christ and He in me on a daily basis? Am I just going through the motions of being a “good” Christian and performing all my spiritual disciplines without actually being in that special place? Will I place so much of my life in His hands that it changes how I approach everything else in my life? Can I really trust that His Spirit living in me gives me the authority and ability to bring light to the world around me?

I need to Abide.