Saturday, January 2, 2010

Its who you know

I noticed something a few weeks ago. In the midst of one of my hours of depression and self-loathing I realized something. As I sat and wondered what everyone else was doing as I was bored I felt depressed for the fact that I felt alone. Then I realized something. I rely on people far too much and not enough on God. Why? Well I found that it was more so that I interact with people on a daily basis and have been my whole life. Well don't I interact with God on a daily basis too? Well whom do we see, become emotionally attached to and focus our time, energy and emotions on most of the time? People. Day in and day out, but then how much do we give to God? There's church on Sunday, chapels at our schools if we have them there, there's Wednesday night church, and any ministry we're involved in. So what's wrong then with us if we do we all of this and yet it seems we put all our person in people. Some may make the case that yes, we do spend our time face to face with people all day and that people surround us daily. So better interaction on a physical level with people? Okay but isn't God always with us? I mean literally with us. In our sleeping, when we're awake, standing in line for food, when watching a movie etc. So what is the difference? What's more how often has God hurt you compared to people? God hasn't told you "It's not you its me" and left or told you about how sorry He was he did that to you and that it'll never happen again or that that person meant nothing to them and it was all a mistake. People do though. How often do we strive to get a persons attention just to be able to date them and have a relationship when Christ has a love deeper than any one person can give us. How often do we go out of our way to do something for a friend that means so much to us we'll do anything at the drop of a pin but when Christ asks us we give any and every excuse in the book to get out of it? What is it about us? I fear because I know more of people than I do about God, my creator. I have spent so much effort, time, tears and pain for people but how much for God? Put it on some scales and weigh it, see what it comes to. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with that for people, but do we give the same attention of ourselves, basically our being to God? So what do we do? Spend more time in the word, go to church so much we live there, or forsake people and live in solitude devoting our day to God? To be honest I don't know. I don't have an answer. If I did it'd be my answer not yours, right?

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