To ask the question "Would a God-centred life actually resolve my spiritual challenges?", brings up the false dilemma that either resolves those challenges or does not resolve it.
A God-centred life will always be challenged by a human being whose life revolves around his egocentricity. Thus, I would still need the Buddhist meditative practice and meditation to cut through the delusion of ego that I alone can decide when to rely on a Higher Power.
In order to reconcile Buddhist practice with a God-centred life, without compromising the middle way of Buddhism, I consider such a life as the ideal by which God guides me.
For the ideal is this too: God is the Creator of His Creation; He is in all Creation yet is a part of Creation.
Given that God is in all creation yet a part of creation, the very thought that I decide when to rely on Him is utterly foolish! For I am not God, only a human being with a soul worth saving.
When I let go of ego, and let God be the centre of all life, it makes sense to rely on Him all the time.
How simple it is to just rely on Him!
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