Holy Frustration!!!

Holy Frustration!!!

I am not sure what my obsession is for PUNS but I seam to enjoy them, so much so that I often create ones that make little to no sense to others. This one is pretty straightforward…

I sit here typing with a pounding headache and a mound of other things that I should be doing. Many of them the reason for the title of this post. This has been possible the worst month I have had in long time and easily the worst that I have had since re-committing life to Christ!

I thought we weren’t supposed to have bad days! After all we are Christians right? Christ loves us and we do good things, so good things should happen for us. Right?

This has become the way that many of us are living, we only approach the issues that make us feel good we only talk about the stuff that makes us happy and warm on the inside. We only bring up the positive side of Christ, the side that brought all nations together and healed the ill and gave sight to the blind. What about the Jesus that took on the religious leaders of his time? What about the Jesus that challenged the people that were ruling in his time, calling them Vipers and Pharisees? Should we simply sit back and pretend that these people don’t exist in our current church? Should we simply ignore the things that people say and do and then come to church on Sunday and claim to have it all together? Should we not be reaching out to these people and calling them out, telling them that we see what they put on facebook and we notice how they snicker and gossip about each other? What if we were to call each other out and say “hey you are screwin up!” and then offer a path to salvation. Offer something much more satisfying for the void that they are trying to fill. But is hasn’t always been like this, It hasn’t always been so hard, remember when we were young? We loved God and trusted Christ and everything was easy!

So why do we end up living this way? Why is it that as young kids we follow blindly and simply understand that Christ loves us and is there for us? Is it because we don’t know what “real life” is like? We don’t have the pressures of work and money, or families, marriage and divorce? Alcohol and drugs? Porn, sex and temptation? But if that’s the case then why do we change? At what point in life do we simply stop trusting and start denying? Is it when we hit puberty? Suddenly we realize how terrible the world is loose hope?

Or could it be that, maybe we start to fold to the growing pressures from society and our families to participate in every sport and activity possible to strive to be at the top of our class and get all A’s and soon the main focus of our lives is no longer Christ, its making the team or the honor role or getting into the best school or getting the most scholarship offers. And then it starts all over, to be the best so that maybe we can play professionally, or get the best grades so that you can get the best job and make the most money so you can have the best car and the biggest house with the happiest family.

We live in a world that wants to shelter out youth as much as possible and keep all the bad things away from them. But at the same time we value things like grades and school activities and sports more then a connection with God. Don’t get me wrong I think that a balanced individual is the best and being involved in school and getting good grades is great, but since when do we allow our kids sports teams to dictate our Sundays? Since when do we value a starting spot on the team more then a place in salvation?

And then at the same time when things go wrong and our kids make dumb decisions and get hurt or into trouble who do we question fist? Christ! The Church! The very people that we were denying,

Yes it is true that our students will make mistakes and will fall down but who will be there to pick them up when they fall? Their coach, their teacher, their friends?

Maybe its time that we start re-evaluating that starting position, that SAT score or that college offer and maybe its time to have a little more faith in the fact that God already has a plan for us and maybe, just maybe if we took a little time to slow down and listen it all might be a little more clear.