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What is missing?
I don't want to be pessimistic. But sometimes I wonder if I'm seeing something completely different from what most people see. The impression I get of most Christians and Christian communities is that something is just not where it should be. I see youth groups pursuing distractions and games as if the youths attention span is to short to be held by the reality of God and all that goes along with it. Not just youth groups but I see a masking and a fake-ness, everything seems to sterile or incapable of reproducing life.
Part of that may be me projecting my own inconsistencies into what I see, but it seems widespread. Where are the people who genuinely talk to God and hear his voice? Where are those who love with no holds barred and take giant risks? Where are those who are willing to take a stand? Where are those who are waiting to hear what God is really saying today?
Am I the only one who sees how destitute we truly are in the knowledge of God? Maybe I see the lack because at one point I glimpsed the reality of God enough to know that to see him once is to know true fascination, and to awaken a hunger that will not quit. Maybe I'm not the only one who has seen this.
We were not meant to mask our weakness but to glory in his strength. In order to do that we have to see his power. We were not meant for distraction but divine fascination; fascination with the beauty of God. I'm not trying to condemn any. But I believe God is calling us; myself included to walk in a greater revelation of who He is and who He says we are.
I don't want to be pessimistic. But sometimes I wonder if I'm seeing something completely different from what most people see. The impression I get of most Christians and Christian communities is that something is just not where it should be. I see youth groups pursuing distractions and games as if the youths attention span is to short to be held by the reality of God and all that goes along with it. Not just youth groups but I see a masking and a fake-ness, everything seems to sterile or incapable of reproducing life.
Part of that may be me projecting my own inconsistencies into what I see, but it seems widespread. Where are the people who genuinely talk to God and hear his voice? Where are those who love with no holds barred and take giant risks? Where are those who are willing to take a stand? Where are those who are waiting to hear what God is really saying today?
Am I the only one who sees how destitute we truly are in the knowledge of God? Maybe I see the lack because at one point I glimpsed the reality of God enough to know that to see him once is to know true fascination, and to awaken a hunger that will not quit. Maybe I'm not the only one who has seen this.
We were not meant to mask our weakness but to glory in his strength. In order to do that we have to see his power. We were not meant for distraction but divine fascination; fascination with the beauty of God. I'm not trying to condemn any. But I believe God is calling us; myself included to walk in a greater revelation of who He is and who He says we are.