Detached yet Connected.
2010 is quickly approaching. In one week we will be ushered into the next decade. As this process begins some will vow to be different next year others will melt into 2010 with little thought or appreciation for what’s just happened. The News Industry will rehash what we did, why we did it and predict doom and gloom for the year ahead. The advertisers will help us define which product will change our lives, make us thin and cover those wrinkles. Questions will rise over the economy, health care and on and on.
Talk of the American Dream will rise and fall. In Oregon, Measures 66 and 67 will be touted as our destruction or our savior. We will hope for a better world and a better life not really understanding the definition of “Better.” Our temptation will be to worry, debate, fight and argue over the answer. Rather than riding the fine line between involvement and obsession some of us will dive in never checking to see how deep the water is before we jump.
As I sit and think of what God did for me I must smile. He knew I would never understand how to be detached and yet connected to this world and it’s issues unless He came here in the flesh and showed me. I must fight my temptation to both fight and flight. I must stay closest to Him when the bottom falls out of systems we think were meant to hold us up and bring happiness and prosperity.
As people we will always believe we can do it ourselves. Our stubbornness and lack of humility is what makes us human and keeps us from ever finding the answers. I refuse to hide and at the same time will not hitch my life to any lifeline or doctrine that fails to connect to God.
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“As people we will always believe we can do it ourselves”—
This is such an American cultural statement–
In my life I try really hard to take my issues, big and small to the LORD, so that I Let GO and LET GOD– I am not perfect at this skill but — I think that because I keep coming back to HIM, it teaches me that in HIM I will have peace, In HIM I will be what HE wishes for me to be.
I hope and pray that this New Year brings a fresh outlook on how we can all do our best– and in turn our world may be a better place.
Strange to be ambassadors to this world, when we were originally born into this world, but this world is not our eternal home, and those around us are those to whom we communicate for our King of kings. When the King decides that it is time to remove His ambassadors, we are headed to our heavenly home.
Strange to be ambassadors to this world, when we were originally born into this world, but this world is not our eternal home, and those around us are those to whom we communicate for our King of kings. When the King decides that it is time to remove His ambassadors, we are headed to our heavenly home.