Thursday, January 29, 2009

Living a life of faith should be a journey pregnant with adventures, wonder and sacrifice. Each day offers a challenge to abandon the innate pull of human selfishness in pursuit of the glory of God. It is both the most misunderstood and the most ignored part of the Christian life. Some compensate their lack of understanding by posting a legalistic list of rules deep inside their hearts desire to follow God. Others use it as a twisted attempt to control God within their "name it and claim it" prayers. While some offer it up as a supernatural phenomenon manifested in a chosen few. I am far from being an expert on it. In fact, sometimes it feels like I am sitting at a drive in movie theater with popcorn spilled across my lap as I sit sleepily observing others scrambling to do it right across the big screen. It is the life Christians are called to, but struggle to personify its meaning. I am no exception. Somewhere deep inside I believe it is a simple truth that we as intelligent human beings complicate while trying to make sense of living a holy life in a world immersed in sin and self-gratification. The good news is we are not without hope at finding the successful path to living a life of faith for we know that everything we need is available through the gift of God's Son. That is the beginning and the end of the process. Perhaps we simply need to stop striving to be something that God has already established in us.