As you may have read in my previous post, “I Begged God to Free Me,” I had a little taste of what happens when you don’t have Facebook, tv, etc. to disctract and numb when you really need to work things out with God.
In this post, I want to go a little deeper into that.
The next morning after I had my conversation with God, I was reading one of my favorite books “Kisses for Kaitie,” by Katie Davis. If you haven’t read this book yet, you need to. I’m currently reading it for the second time.
I was reading in chapter 2 “In the Crucible of Contradiction” and I just want to take a moment to quote her.
“I thought of the life I left behind, in which I would have easily dropped $100 on a pair of shoes. Now I looked around and realized that $100 could provide a starving family with food for months. I thought of how, after a long, hard day in my previous life, I would have crashed on the couch with a pint of ice cream, a good sappy movie, and my closest girlfriends. Here, at the end of a long hard day, there was nothing to do but cry out to Jesus for the strength to go on.” (p. 23)
This quote resonated deeply with me due to the night before. I am someone who loves to annotate in her Christian books, and I want to share part of what I wrote next to the paragraph.
1/26/17
“I always want to need You–even in America where things are ‘easy.’ Or is it just a big charade to distract us from you? Like a magic show that puts us in awe, but distracts us…?”
Is our first world status, technology, and “luxuries” our America offers things that really are just tools that Satan uses to distract us from intimacy with God?
I am not saying that our blessings aren’t good or that all technology is bad.
I have wondered in passing how much some things hinder us Christians and my moment with God and this quote gave me a brief view of what I believe to be a truth.
I ask you to pray if there are things you use to take up empty time, to numb yourself from pain….
Things not all bad in themselves and in moderation. I even have moments I just want to “escape” and watch a movie or my favorite tv show….
….but, what if we didn’t have any of that and in our moments of joy and excitement or moments of pain and mourning, we met our Creator in a whole new, deeper way?
Sometimes when thinking about extremes, we can see a glimmer of truth.
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*In this quote, Katie was not talking specifically about this topic, but actually about how God was teaching her through contradictions. But this quote still served as a great example.
*Davis, Katie. “Kisses for Katie.” Howard Books, p. 23 (2011).
