Jane Austen: humanity's yearning to run away with your lover

Why do we not have the courage to run away to God, instead of staying in the trappings of money and conservative comforts of life?

I used to be all out for God, but then, after personal struggles, and seeing in real life, that God is not always displaying miraculous interventions to keep me from harm, and to help me get what I want, I start to doubt whether God cares about what I want.

If I were to go out on a limb, will He catch me? Am I tempting God by my expectations and demands?

Who am I that He would intervene? Oh, He loves me, but doesn't He for everyone else?

That I am truly sincere, but so are many other fanatics, who did not see God's intervention.

Too many instances where we would go all out, and He is silent, and didn't catch us when we fall.

My deep cry for the longest time – why are you no longer intervening? though I still feel you are there, but you no longer extend your hand?

At the Fall retreat

This feeling persisted, pinnacle at the Men's Retreat.  When I voice these feelings in the God-Only-Zone sharing with Steve, and as we prayed, I started to cry uncontrollably without any provocation.  This is God's sign that He knows my hurts and desires, and comforts me that He is still there with me, and that He approves of what I am going through, and will be there to see me through this whole struggle.

The book "Lies Women Believes" by Nancy DeMoss pointed out that we constantly doubt God's

• Goodness: does He really want what is best for us?
• Sovereignty: can He really be powerful enough to give it to us?
• Love: does He really care about little old me, and my circumstances?
  

Slowly I am learning and experiencing the positive answers to all these characters of God.

miraculo.us

start a site to show instances of our all out on a limb, and catch by God

How is our Attitude toward God, and the way we approach God?

• what are the social hinderences at church? Our kneeling, posture, expression, voice...
• all affected because we are in the presence of each other.
• Social correlations leads to inhibition, i.e. what would others think of me...
• When we are by ourselves, let us be intimate with God, and expressing toward God all that we want, just like couples having intimate relations, totally uninhibited, whether we kneel, pray outloud, raise our hands toward heaven, dance, etc

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