Spiritual Inventory 2

Personal Spiritual Inventory Reflection

When I read Kenneth Boa’s chapter on “Falling in Love with God. My spirit leaped for

joy the more I read the more my journey had become clearer to me and helped me understand it

all. I have always been thankful that God made me a trainable and resourceful person to gain

more knowledge each day of him to fulfill his will over my life. I was over joyed when I read,

“The more our joy is detached from the things of the world teaches us to love, the simpler our

approach to God will be. Or to put it in the other way around, as we grow in our attachment to

Jesus, we progressively distance ourselves from the allurements of the world”. (p. 188)

I thank God for the freedom I have in him and pure love I have for others through my

love of God. My friends often say to me, Lisa you always seem joyful and never have an enemy.

I always tell them the joy I have the word truly didn’t give it to me, but it was received through

my love of God. And if I am made in his image then I am love, and love holds no records of

wrong but forgives and loves again. This knowledge I have received has kept me in perfect

peace to love freely and to walk in agape love towards all. I understand that when others treat

me wrong or use me it is because of their own unresolved pain and/or hurt. So I quickly pray that

God will heal them of all their past pain and truly deliver them to walk in love and freedom as

well.

My discipline to truly let God break my outward self was a process which brought me

back to life. “He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to

life eternal” (John 12:24-25). My desire is always to please God more than to impress people. I

want to always be like Christ and embrace his governing goals to be pleasing to the Father (John

8:29, Hebrews 10:7). (p. 193)