Monday 14 January 2008

Confusion...

Okay well its 1.40am and Im still up so thought I'd start this blog for real.

Recently Ive been thinking a lot about what it means for us to call ourselves Christians... Whats is all about? How does it affect us and our lives in this world?

This world we're living in is great, but its awful at the same time. Its a mind messer - complicates everything and sets unnecessary standards. Its provides us with a "rule book" to live by, with the author being everyone in the world combined with peer pressure. The world tells us that we have to make educated, sensible, carefully planned and well detailed plans. If we try to do anything radical, unique or out of the ordinary it's thought we're being naive, "stupid" or inexperienced...

This doesn't make sense though. The people in the Bible that God chose to use weren't educated.. The only educated person I can think of is Luke, who was a doctor. (Well done Alex for learning that fact today.) All the other people God used were just ordinary people, just like you and I. They weren't highly qualified people who made clear step by step detailed instructions as to what they were going to do and how they were going to do it. They just did it. They gave Him their all and lived their lives open to listen for God and when He spoke, they responded. Do we truly do this?

I guess what I'm trying to express here is my confusion.. The world contradicts everything God tells us to be and too many people are obeying the world. The world tries to work out detailed answers for everything, allowing nothing to be unknown and calculating everything... God calls us to follow Him using faith - something we build yet can't measure using any form of measurements of the world. We're called to be radical and to take risks, yet the world tells us if we do this we're being naive because we could mess up and fail. The world has told us failure is the worst thing possible. If we fail something we're ruined for life. Nothing can fix it. This world is full of lies. We need to realise God is with us through this.. If the thoughts are there to do something, we need to stop pushing them to the back of our minds - We've been given them for a reason so we need to share them, develop them and just go for it! Be risky, its all for His glory...