Disclaimer:
this is kind of a combination of a couple of blogs I have written, but
this stuff is just hitting me so hard right now.
I have been having a hard time lately. We only have a few days left on the
race. I look back and remember all
the amazing people I have met.
With that, I also remember all the hurt people I have met. I remember the abused, the lonely, the
sad, the abandoned. It makes my
heart ache. I get to wondering,
God where are you?!?! I found
myself getting angry and confused.
I heard this quote recently.
“It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create
nice things; but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.”
~ C.S. Lewis
He is with us.
He is EVERYWHERE. He shows
us how to live. He has been
telling us the whole time. We just
haven’t been listening.
God is not a God of our circumstance. I don’t think he ever tells us to live
out of our circumstances. Why do
we?
He tells us over and over again not to look to the world for
our value. It doesn’t matter where
we were born. It doesn’t matter if
we live in a dirt floor shack in Togo or in a mansion on a hill. God is the same God he says he is. He is the same today, tomorrow and
forever. He is love. What he is concerned about is where our
identity lies. What does our
character look like? What does our
heart look like? What do you live for?
The poverty mentality is killing us. It doesn’t matter if you are in a dirt
floor shack in Togo or a mansion on a hill. I know that I can go home, live in the suburbs and not feel
guilty. A of all, guilt is not an
emotion from God, I don’t deserve to live in that. Second of all, IT’S JUST OUR CIRCUMSTANCE. I look at people and I see their heart,
not where they live. I have met so
many people living in shacks that are so much happier and joyful than a lot of
people I’ve met that live in a mansion on a hill.
The more I learn about this God I serve, the more this world
gets flipped upside down. I have
seen the world and the people in it destroy one another. I have seen the church come in and
restore.
