“Imagine what it would look like to have an organic relationship with God – one that’s stripped of all pollutants and additives of the world,” caught my attention as I read the back of this book. I am a person who values my relationship with God, so obviously Organic God was a book that I knew I would enjoy reading.
This is one of those situations where you feel as though you’ve got it all together; that your personal relationship with God is perfect and just as it should be. You see yourself as needing no improvement; you dedicate just enough time in fellowship, you study a few verses now and then and seem satisfied that you walk away with no new meaning and revelation of the study. Then you start reading a book such as Organic God and you suddenly sense that you have fallen into a state of complacency and are far from the perfect image you created of yourself.
The author of Organic God, Margaret Feinberg, wrote this book in such a fashion where it seemed as though I was reading a personal journal of hers in which she spoke freely without reservation or fear of ridicule or criticism. Growing up in a Christian home with accents of Judaism (her father was Jewish); Margaret learned important traits that are lacking among the majority of the Christian church family in this day and age.
The present day Body of Christ is stuck in a pool of complacency, a cozy comfort zone where they feel as though attending church off and on throughout the year constitutes being a Christian (which in reality means “Christ-like”.) In my encounters, many don’t even know the Word of God, except for a few scriptures that have been commercialized throughout the generations. Most have no real knowledge of the ‘God’ they serve. They even believe that His name is God and that Christ is Jesus’ last name. Think of the shock when they find out that God is a general term used by interpreters and He actually has many names throughout the Bible. For instance, in Genesis when the name God is mentioned, the original Hebrew name is actually Elohim, which means ‘The All Powerful Creator’, and a few chapters into Genesis, you see the LORD God, which is actually translated Jehovah – which means ‘the self-existent one who reveals Himself and is unchanging’. The word, or name, Christ is translated as ‘The Anointed One’ and it also implies and refers to ‘His Anointing’, it in no way is talking about the last name of Jesus, but who He is. Imagine the difference it would make in the lives of millions if they truly knew and understood what they were reading when they read the Bible.
Throughout this book, the author tells us how she does take time to study the words she reads as well as taking the time to meditate on them. When revelation comes to her regarding a scripture or an instance in the Bible, she sees it in a way that she can relate and where it makes it real to her. Her descriptions of her revelation are amazing and so vivid, that you, while reading, can understand exactly what she is saying and what God is saying. As I read through the chapters of this book, I, myself, realized that I had come to a place of complacency in my own spiritual life and relationship with my Lord. I had become satisfied in the knowledge I had already gained, not really desiring to dig deeper and know more. I had lost the zeal I once had in my life towards God and the passion for Him had faded.
If anything, this book has rekindled a fire that I once had and has me, on a daily basis, making and effort (on purpose) to be ever-searching the Word of God for more revelation that will deepen my relationship with Him. Isn’t that what it’s about anyway? Life is so much richer when you have an intimate fellowship with the ‘All Powerful Creator’.
If I may personally, in this review, thank Margaret Feinberg for allowing me and thousands of others to step into her relationship with God and share in her experiences where I am able to glean, even if just fragments, her love and passion for God. Thank you for sharing, so transparently, your shortcomings, mistakes, findings and victories in your personal goals. When one can look at another and see a realness and sincerity in their life, then one is naturally attracted to the honesty and is quick to learn.
I recommend this book for anyone who desires to deepen their relationship with God. For anyone who has let their lives be overcrowded with the unnecessary ‘pollutants’ of this, it’s time to begin your journey to discovering a God. This book will help you see the Word of God as real, not just stories, and you will begin to see that there is meaning to those words that will impact your life forever, if you will only let them. Seeing God in this manner will open a whole new world to you that you will welcome and embrace and hold on to the rest of your life.
