Redeeming the Time
My Saturday morning started a little different today. Rather than waking up and cleaning the house - yes, that is my Saturday routine, lol - I traveled an hour with some friends to pick up a new dresser for them.
Within that hour we had some thought provoking conversations about life, work, politics, and theology. For anyone that is a regular reader of this blog, I’m sure that comes as no surprise.
What I found intriguing and somewhat troubling about our time together, was the sense of how younger generations are inheriting a broken system.
Granted, the past few weeks of hearings and investigations surrounding Judge Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court appointment have been a war of words. The slander and allegations seemed to be heavier than usual and many folks have been expressing their discontent with the situation.
However, I cannot say that I am surprised by any of it. I don’t mean that to say I am indifferent or ignorant of it all, rather, it solidifies what I believe to be true about humanity - we are fundamentally broken.
None of us are born perfect and we will never live perfect lives. We mess up, we fall, and we must at some point face the reality of our good works being no more than filthy rags - we need a Savior.
That great need we have is not one that allows for resentment about our circumstances. It is a need that calls us to greater service and working with the talents we have in the world we have entered.
I don’t deny that things are rough. What I propose to my fellow youngins, is that all this that you call awful and unredeemable is exactly what we are supposed to be redeeming. Not of our own strength of course, and that is exactly the point. It is proof that the world we so desperately want to see is a world He so graciously gave us at cross. The City of God is here, and the City of God is still coming.
I have no plans to sit here and mope about the way things are while there is building to be done. Nothing ventured. Nothing gained. Besides, the adventure is not about the glory at the top, it is in the climb.
thoughtful post, lydon. What disturbs me is the way evangelicals often vote en masse to back an issue regardless of other considerations. If we do this in our Christian walk, attempting to be single-issue focussed, we will do so at the the expense of more weighty matters and end up going around stamping out fires. Deb and I came to this conclusion when we were working for the pro-life movement. What people need is not have their thoughts adjusted regarding a specific issue, but to hear the gospel. Even believers have to adjust their focus at times :)
The gospel is Words of eternal life.
I agree, John. Your wise words lead me to recall this image. :)
Ha ha, a good cartoon but a tad defensive. The Christian is not under siege by the world but is actively involved in redeeming the world and renewing his own mind in accordance with God's Word. Ps 119 vividly portrays the life of one who delights in and lives by the law of God. And the best way to redeem the world is not by forcing change upon it but by changing worlds, beginning with ourselves :)
There's a reason 'forgiveness' is so oft repeated in the Bible...
Humans are designed to fail, and graced with the capacity for forgiveness.
Let us not judge ourselves or others by how often we fall, instead let us regard how quickly and reliably we help those up who need it.
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