Meditations—points to ponder

The purpose of this learning to live with God is to transform us into the likeness 

and character of Jesus. God’s everlasting intent for human life 

is that we should be in every aspect a dwelling place for God. 

We are, in God’s time and in God’s way, to be set free from the list in 

Galatians 5:19-21 and we are in God’s time and in God’s way to take on 

the spiritual fruit of Galatians 5:22-23.

This is an inner process of transformation. 

The heart is deeply and surely healed, restored and redirected by God alone. 

Old affections of hate, guilt and envy are simply gone. 

New affections of faith, hope and love are in their place. 

Love, joy and peace in the Holy Spirit seem to flow from us—

simply and naturally—supernaturally in fact.

Q: How does such a transformed life come into being?

Through vision; intention and means—these three operating under the Grace of God 

will immerse us in a life that is penetrated throughout by love, 

that responds to everything in the light of God’s overriding governance for good, 

that has Power to overcome evil with Christ-likeness. 

We will increasingly live the with God life. 

Living the with God life will see us catch the vision of …

Isa 43:19 I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

But the intrinsic power and greatness of the Bible does not make it easy for us 

to receive the LIFE it offers. 

We must grasp the Bible for it to be adequate to our needs.

Richard Foster with Kathryn Helmers Life with God: a life-transforming new approach to Bible Reading pp2-3

Jeremiah 15:16 (NRSV) — 16a Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart; …