I’m playing connect the dots with a recent post by Travis and a Spurgeon quote by Tulipgirl. Please don’t hold them responsible…

Isn’t it interesting that the modernist mindset so invades our view of spiritual maturation that we view it almost exclusively as a linear progression? We’ll allow for a few dips here and there but we want to see that trend towards perfection(which is what? good behavior?).

And isn’t it interesting that the man praised for being a “man after God’s own heart” was David - arguably one of the most “spirtual” men that you’ll find in the scriptures?

And so, isn’t it interesting that David’s entire life is characterized by trust and doubt, torment and glory, praise and self-centeredness?

David’s progress wasn’t quite linear, was it? Sometimes you might even wonder if he was a follower of God at all. Is it that we have the wrong picture of what spiritual maturity looks like? Do we hide those “un-Christian” feelings and thoughts from our fellow Christians because, well, we should have grown out of them by now?

Not quite sure where the answer is in all this but I’m pretty sure that we in the church need to take a good, honest look at ourselves and find ways of dealing with all this hidden stuff out in the open, in community.