For many of us, God is like Mr. Darcy. Even though He is everything we could ever hope for, we see Him through eyes that have been distorted by his enemy’s lies. Our misguided views of what He is like pour water on the flames of our passion. We may honor Him with the duty owed to a superior, but we feel no real passion for intimacy with Him. Your view of God may not be as distorted as what I have described, but the reality is that most of us have doubts about God at the heart level that hinder our desire for Him. One of the central goals of a heart-focused journey is to develop a mental
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