Depth

Some would say it is a strange thing to be overtaken with something as radical as a God we cannot comprehend. Those people have never been overtaken. Most of those people are "Christians." Its hard to imagine establishing a love so potent and so valuable as God has for us. Harder still to understand how a love so strong continues to burn over thousands of years of debauchery and whoredom. We don't seem to have the capacity to maintain that love for the nominal years we dedicate to marriages.

The trouble I have as a Christian is I act like I get the basics. I pretend to understand the love of Christ, the power of the cross, and the presence of the Holy Spirit. The fact is, I search and search for depth on a daily basis. I need something hard to understand to conquer my mind and twist it into a pretzel to feel like I am growing for that day. I think any of us that have been Christians for any period of time have gotten to this point. We chase after profundity with such zeal; like we chase after nothing else in life. We don't pursue God's face with the same zeal that we look for weightiness, and I believe, we suffer because of it. Even now, I'm trying to manipulate wordplay subconsciously so this is a more entertaining piece of writing, and so it takes you to a new level of thinking. Even so, here is the fact of the matter: we are so consumed with wisdom and knowledge that we have cheapened the gulf that is God's love. We don't realize that the most very basic piece to the Christianity puzzle, and the cornerstone of the entire Gospel message, is God's love and his plan for us. That is it. Within that love, there is a depth that we cannot ever understand in these bodies. I am not saying we shouldn't chase after wisdom. Wisdom is crucial and coveted, but we need to start back at the beginning sometimes and take in what has long been forgotten; that our God's love should so entrap us, that we can do nothing but try to understand it for our whole existence. Through that pursuit we will learn everything else we need to know.

Seriously

I have been overtaken by emotion and embarrassment and plain anger this morning. As I read this morning I'm being haunted by some peculiar evidence that seems to point to the atrocity that is our church life here in America. We all realize by now that God is sifting. Luke warm is becoming even more gross and I think it's becoming endangered. This is one extinction I pray for. Either get on board with actively following the example of a sinless, holy man or get out!I think the reason we experience such a rapid decline into mediocrity is the way we come to "know" Christ in the first place. We base our salvation on a prayer we repeat and then we take a seat and twiddle our thumbs for 60 more years of life. Is it supposed to impress God that we "accept" his son? He took on all the pain that the sin of the entire world carries and we "accept" him? Why do we think God wants us that bad? We are the ones that have the need here. We are the ones who should be falling on our face asking Christ to captivate us and lead us into the streets to do as He did. As sure as there is a Hell, God doesn't need us, and he didn't need a pardon for sin. He doesn't need another do-nothing civilian in the Lord's Army, no sir. That is not the gospel. For some strange reason we think it's our actions that get us salvation. Our "acceptance" and our "belief" gets us to Heaven, and that is really all we are shooting for anyway. It is this terribly misguided belief that cultivates stagnation in our churches. No one pursues holiness anymore. It doesn't end with a prayer of belief and acceptance. Guys, it doesn't even begin there. If that was the case, the Gospels would be the only books of the Bible, and we would only need a few chapters of those. It's a never ending pursuit that follows a never ending, holy Word. I hope everyone becomes a follower of Christ; a true lover and follower of Christ. However, we don't need another dead weight to fill a seat on Sunday. Really, we don't.

Weighty

It has been a really really long time coming, but I have to write again. So if anyone actually reads this stuff, great, and if not, at least I'm getting it outside of this broken down body.

So, life is happening quick. I graduate college in a couple weeks and then I guess it is this real world concept I'm still unsure of. I don't mean to ramble about me and my life, but my life has been strategically and drastically over thought as I've endured the weight of an entirely new world being introduced to me. Perhaps the heaviest of things is my longing to impact. As some of you, who read these things know, I am a passionate person. The problem with us dreamers is we tend to dream a lot more than we know how to accomplish, and that destroys us. It's not the dreaming itself that drags us down, no, that is our very being. Our existence is defined by our ardor, and that very gusto is what sets us apart from the melancholy, comfortable world. The unknown, the what could be, the "how do I get there?" is what drives us mad. Many a lofty goal-setter will stay on the mundane road to complacency often stopping to think "what if?" whereas I want to step out and make a difference. I can't allow myself to settle; I must go and I must do. I don't want to get stuck in the in-between of who I am impacting the world for, however, either. My desire is to follow Christ like the term "Christian" implies I do, without holding back and follow short like we all too often do. I don't want to get prideful either, because impacting the world in a positive way is amazing regardless, but doing it while staying in the shadows and letting Christ get the glory is a far greater accomplishment. It is a far more difficult task, but a far more rewarding outcome.

Let us live life without bounds, and take on the world that Christ has already overcome (John 16:33) to proclaim his worth. To God be the glory.