What are you reading?
When I am around friends and leaders, I often ask them, “What are you reading?” A few months ago my friend, Marshall Snider, told me about a book he had just finished by Mark Batterson call Wild Goose Chase. Marshall explained to me how the title of the book is based on the Celtic Christians’ name for the Holy Spirit. The Celtics’ called Him “An Geadh-Glas”, or “the Wild Goose.”
The book does a good job at reminding us that following the Holy Spirit is a wild adventure that should never be boring or uneventful. The writer identifies six cages we need to come out of in order to chase the goose. Here are those six cages: The cage of responsibility, routine, assumption, guilt, failure and fear.
I learned in the book that the chase is very much about discovering your God given passions. Batterson says the way to discover these passions is by “identifying what makes you sad, mad or glad and that somewhere in the sadness, madness or gladness you will find the Wild Goose chase.”
The one big truth that grabbed my attention is on page 156. Here Batterson writes, “The difference between where you are and where God wants you to be may be the painful decision you refuse to make.” That statement gives me courage to not put off decisions I know I need to make, so as not to miss what God’s wants for my life.
