God is typically more interested in the inward journey than any outward performances.

A friend came to me recently with all kinds of questions and about the Bible.

This one is about gratitude.

A conversation about being and becoming.

"Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord." (Romans 12:11)

“You have taken off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy.”

(Psalm 30:11)

"As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them." (Luke 24:15)

God establishes physical altars in the world, but a spiritual altar in each heart where we bring things and give them up as worship to God.

David's plea for deliverance in Psalm 30:9 appeals to a glorious presumption: how much God would lose if he lost him.

"God, if you let this thing take me, you're gonna miss me."

It's this bedrock certainty of God's love that he brings with him out of the pit, out of sheol, and into the redemption that ensues.

I made a case that our attachment style affects all our relationship, including our relationship to God. And we can change. And that Scriptural prayers model some very healthy convictions regarding attachment. We started with Psalm 5.

Secure, anxious, avoidant, disorganized...