I’ve been going down to London now for 2 years…the last 2 academic years I’ve been there 2 days a week and this year I’m only there 1 day a week. As part of my journey from Peterborough to Waterloo (ish) I get to ride on the London Underground.

Even though I’ve been on the underground numerous times now there’s still something mysterious and exciting about it.

There’s something about waiting on a station not knowing which way or when the next train will come.

There’s something about feeling the breeze begin to blow through the tunnel onto the station as the next train approaches.

There’s something about the mysterious front lights of the train as it hurtles down the tunnel towards the station.

I don’t know what it is but there’s something exciting about waiting on the underground station for the train to arrive…and that mystery hasn’t really faded in the last two years…although now I notice that sense of mystery less often.

The funny thing is that I started writing this post with the intention of simply writing about the underground mystery however perhaps as a result of getting used to Pastor’s making ‘God-links’ out of everyday activities I wonder if God is a bit like my underground experience.

I guess the bottom line with Christianity regardless of whether you became a Christian or grew up through Christianity and gradually made that decission to follow Christ is that our journey’s are much like my tube adventures.

When we first make that committment we experience excitement, a sense of joy and a sense of mystery in not going what will come our way next but as time goes on that excitement and mystery we experience in God seems to fade away…maybe we get used to the feeling of God there, or maybe we forget what the feeling of God is but often I think it’s simply that God becomes so central in our lives He becomes nothing but a part of us.

Occasionally we may suddenly have that realisation of God’s awesome presence much like I did today with the underground but in reality God can easily just drift into our everyday life.

The thing is I don’t think that’s explicitly wrong but I don’t think it’s right…I wonder if the stage of God just lurking there gives us that luke warm attitude talked about in revelation…the neither hot nor cold approach to Christianity.

I believe that God is much much more than a feeling we experience the same way which whether I feel excitement and mystery towards the underground train or not doesn’t change the fact that the underground is part of my life however I believe it’s important to be aware of the presence of God in the foreground of our lives…God shouldn’t be something pushed to the side but should be in the forefront of everything.

I’ve been reading David Crowder’s book ‘Praise Habit: Finding God in Sunsets and Sushi’ and he talks about us living lives which live a habit of praise…a life where Jesus much like the clothes we wear are obvious to those around us and obvious to us.

So I guess my thought on the underground is that I’d love to experience that eager sense of mystery as the train approaches, as I feel the breeze and as I see the lights everytime I catch the underground however in reality I won’t but it’ll still be there and in that same way I won’t experience that excitement I found in God the first time that I really decided to follow Him…the first time I invited His Holy Spirit into my life but He will always be there and I will experience Him in all sorts of different ways…in all these ways I hope He will be in the foreground of my life.