While preparing for the next message in being healthy, emotionally and spiritually, I happened to read a statement from Erwin McManus in his 2005 book, The Barbarian Way.

McManus has influenced my thinking a great deal, since I first saw him speak at The Alliance General Council in Sacramento.

Take a moment to give some thought to these words, in the light of emotional and spiritual health:

Somehow Christianity has become a nonmystical religion. It’s about a reasonable faith. If we believe the right things, then we are orthodox. Frankly whether we actually connect to God or experience his undeniable presence has become incidental, if not irrelevant. We have become believers rather than experiencers. To know God in the Scriptures always went beyond information to intimacy. We may find ourselves uncomfortable with this reality, but the faith of the Scriptures is a mystical faith. It leads beyond the material world into an invisible reality. We become connected to the God of eternity. Who you are at the core is spirit. God is Spirit. To walk with God is to journey in the spiritual realm. (Erwin Raphael McManus in The Barbarian Way, p. 61).

Is that what your walk with God is like? Is it a spiritual reality — a personal, deep encounter of who you are with Who He is?