Honest With God: Reflections on Our Spiritual Disciplines Series
By Ps Dev Menon
As part of our #getrest year, we wanted to deepen our relationship with God through developing certain spiritual disciplines and practices. We recently held three sessions facilitated by our brother Scuter Koo, covering the Word, Prayer, and Rest. Here is what some of the twenty or so participants had to say:
“I found the workshop really honest and refreshing. It led me to think — how can I be honest and present myself to God through prayer? It also helped to reshape how I think about prayer, that I can pray throughout the day, and I don’t have to pray for things but more so I can talk to God and be honest with him in my thoughts and failures.”
– Jeremy Sim
“Personally found the series helpful for verbalising internal frustrations regarding the Christian spiritual journey (what we are taught should exist vs our personal experience), and for bouncing off ideas on alternate viewpoints…
Of the 3 sessions, I found the session on Prayer most thought-provoking. Appreciated the point of how our earthly parents influence our interaction with God, and we make presumptions of both what God is like and how He’d want the relationship to progress. Was challenged to not just be fully open to God, but to also trust in His love and acceptance of who I currently am.
Strongly recommend this to any and all feeling lost on why their personal experience of knowing God has not equated to life.”
– Ben Thio
“The workshops were a very helpful platform to engage more deeply about spiritual formation together with Scuter and the other participants. I was challenged to rethink my Biblical definitions of common words like rest, and also to be honest with God about where I am and to ask for help. It was also particularly heartening to hear how God was working and shaping each of us in His own way. Highly encouraged and worth your time!”
– Rachel Lee
If these reflections resonate with you, there is more to come. This weekend, BGST is running an introductory course on Spiritual Formation for us, and we look forward to hearing from those participants too.
Our hope is to offer these courses and others with some regularity – because learning to engage with God in an honest way, and to rest in His love, is not a one-off event. It is a lifelong practice that we need to develop, and we want to keep doing it together.
