Glorious Intruder

Informationen zum Autor Joni Eareckson Tada is the founder of the Joni and Friends International Disability Center, an organization accelerating Christian outreach in the disability community. She is an accomplished artist and speaker and the author of nearly fifty books, including 31 Days Toward Intimacy with God, 31 Days to Overcoming Adversity, Diamonds in the Dust, and When God Weeps. Joni and her husband, Ken, live in Calabasas, California. Klappentext Discover Peace, Perspective, and Healing. From a human perspective, God often appears to be an intruder. He presumes, invades, and infringes upon our lives. At times, God encroaches with gentle, subtle reminders - at others, with sudden, devestating judgement. God is not tucked away in some far corner of the universe, uncaring, unfeeling, unthinking...uninvolved. You can count on it - He is intimately involved with the tiniest details of your existence. Learn how His constant presence can bring peace, perspective, and healing into the puzzling and chaotic circumstances of your life.Introduction God is an intruder. He encroaches, presumes, invades, and infringes. He crashes the party. Tears aside curtains. Throws open locked doors. Hits the light switch in a dark room. God pulls the fire alarm in stuffy, sacrosanct hallways. He intruded primeval chaos and brought forth light, beauty, order, and life. He presumed upon the life of a middle-aged man in the town of Ur, and brought forth a nation. He trespassed on the cozy security of the Canaanites, smug behind their walls of stone. He advanced upon the lofty chambers of kings with fingerwagging, feisty old prophets who called down judgment. He was the unwelcome guest at Belshazzar's feast, writing doom on the wall while the revelers gagged on their wine. God intruded the womb of a virgin. He stormed Satan's kingdom on a Christmas night in Bethlehem. He talked out of turn in Judah and Galilee with words that no man spoke before. He crashed the temple courtyards, overturning tables and kicking commerce out the door with a strong arm and a whip of cords. God overstepped the realm of death itself, stealing its banner and crushing its lord. And in the Most Holy Place of the temple, He audaciously tore the veil from top to bottom. And in the end, He will once again intervene in history, judging the nations, banishing sin and death, and setting His throne upon earth even as He rules heaven. God is a glorious intruder in my life, my thoughts, my pain, sorrow, and brokenness. The Spirit of the Lord even invades me, taking up residence in my very body. His Word is a razor-edged sword, piercing my complacency and dividing my soul and spirit. He boldly intrudes into my sin, brashly calling it what it is, challenging me to leave it behind. What can we do but marvel in speechless wonder at our powerful and Almighty Godwho, incidentally, has every right to intrude? After all, can the owner of the house really intrude when he sets foot inside his own door? Can a king be tabbed interfering when he visits the subjects of his own realm? Can a craftsman be thought a trespasser when he wraps his fingers around his own stick of wood? God, an intruder? From His perspective, never. From our point of view? It happens all the time. Whether He encroaches with a gentle, subtle reminder or in sudden, devastating judgment. And that's why I've written this bookso that you may see more of how God intrudes upon your life every day. So you can wonder at it, revel in it, and be gloriously blessed by the fact that your God cares enough to step into your life . . . sometimes when you least expect it. We dare not think that God is absent or daydreaming. The donothing God. He's not tucked away in some far corner of the universe, uncaring, unfeeling, unthinking . . . uninvolved. Count on itGod intru...

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Joni Eareckson Tada is the founder of the Joni and Friends International Disability Center, an organization accelerating Christian outreach in the disability community. She is an accomplished artist and speaker and the author of nearly fifty books, including 31 Days Toward Intimacy with God, 31 Days to Overcoming Adversity, Diamonds in the Dust, *and *When God Weeps. Joni and her husband, Ken, live in Calabasas, California.

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Discover Peace, Perspective, and Healing.

From a human perspective, God often appears to be an intruder. He presumes, invades, and infringes upon our lives. At times, God encroaches with gentle, subtle reminders - at others, with sudden, devestating judgement.

God is not tucked away in some far corner of the universe, uncaring, unfeeling, unthinking...uninvolved. You can count on it - He is intimately involved with the tiniest details of your existence. Learn how His constant presence can bring peace, perspective, and healing into the puzzling and chaotic circumstances of your life.

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Discover Peace, Perspective, and Healing.

From a human perspective, God often appears to be an intruder. He presumes, invades, and infringes upon our lives. At times, God encroaches with gentle, subtle reminders - at others, with sudden, devestating judgement.

God is not tucked away in some far corner of the universe, uncaring, unfeeling, unthinking...uninvolved. You can count on it - He is intimately involved with the tiniest details of your existence. Learn how His constant presence can bring peace, perspective, and healing into the puzzling and chaotic circumstances of your life.

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Introduction

God is an intruder. He encroaches, presumes, invades, and infringes. He crashes the party. Tears aside curtains. Throws open locked doors. Hits the light switch in a dark room. God pulls the fire alarm in stuffy, sacrosanct hallways.

He intruded primeval chaos and brought forth light, beauty, order, and life.

He presumed upon the life of a middle-aged man in the town of Ur, and brought forth a nation.

He trespassed on the cozy security of the Canaanites, smug behind their walls of stone.

He advanced upon the lofty chambers of kings with fingerwagging, feisty old prophets who called down judgment.

He was the unwelcome guest at Belshazzar’s feast, writing doom on the wall while the revelers gagged on their wine.

God intruded the womb of a virgin. He stormed Satan’s kingdom on a Christmas night in Bethlehem. He talked out of turn in Judah and Galilee with words that “no man spoke before.” He crashed the temple courtyards, overturning tables and kicking commerce out the door with a strong arm and a whip of cords.

God overstepped the realm of death itself, stealing its banner and crushing its lord. And in the Most Holy Place of the temple, He audaciously tore the veil from top to bottom.

And in the end, He will once again intervene in history, judging the nations, banishing sin and death, and setting His throne upon earth even as He rules heaven.

God is a glorious intruder in my life, my thoughts, my pain, sorrow, and brokenness.

The Spirit of the Lord even invades me, taking up residence in my very body. His Word is a razor-edged sword, piercing my complacency and dividing my soul and spirit. He boldly intrudes into my sin, brashly calling it what it is, challenging me to leave it behind.

What can we do but marvel in speechless wonder at our powerful and Almighty God—who, incidentally, has every right to intrude? After all, can the owner of the house really “intrude” when he sets foot inside his own door? Can a king be tabbed “interfering” when he visits the subjects of his own realm? Can a craftsman be thought a “trespasser” when he wraps his fingers around his own stick of wood?

God, an intruder? From His perspective, never. From our point of view? It happens all the time. Whether He encroaches with a gentle, subtle reminder or …