When one sees and can honestly face the fact, that his world is really centered in something besides God, in one's self in fact, I think he faces the most profound crossroads in his life (whether he is a layman or a Bishop). Because this is to recognize that one has separated himself from God by taking God's place in the center of his own little world.
What does a person do? The answer is paradoxically the simplest and yet the most difficult thing I have ever done. In our age of complexity we want a complex answer, but Christ gives us instead a terribly difficult one. I think there are basically two things involved in coming to God at the center of one's life: 1) To tell God that we do not love Him most, and confess specifically what it is that we can not give up to Him. 2) To ask God in the personality of Jesus Christ to come into our conscious lives through His Spirit and show us how to live our lives for Him and His purposes… one day at a time.
-- Keith Miller in “The Taste of New Wine”
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