So, how sad is it that i can't appreciate God. i mean really. i've been what you might call a "believer" for some time now. i know the drill; God is awesome; i am grateful. It's not difficult.
So, the other night my wife an i realize that we have a problem. The problem itself is essentially immaterial so i will spare the details and speak generally because the truth is, as specific as my present feelings are, they are in fact the same in all conceptually similar situations.
So we've got problem 'A' and we freak out a bit. Fair enough, problems suck. We get worried. We've been praying about situations surrounding 'A' for sometime not even knowing we had the problem so yeah, we're a little surprised and frustrated.
So obviously we pray and we start looking at the tangible things we can do to try and fix 'A' ourselves. God, helping those who help themselves and what-not, seems to like this sort of thing. We eventually come upon what i came to think of as a 'pseudo-solution'. Fears calm, we relax a bit, still frustrated that 'A' is/was a problem at all, but glad to know that 'A' will not devour us whole.
The next day i'm praying and how do i thank God? "Lord you're awesome and amazing; thank you for such a great solution!"? No, more like, "God thanks for staving of disaster for a while but what else have you got."
The thing is this, i'm an idiot. God totally saved our bacon (turkey if you're curious) and i'm moderately grateful. i appreciate His help and all, but i really had something much grander in mind. It's like saying, "You know God, this whole salvation thing great and all but, is there like a platinum package you offer? Maybe something where i can skip this whole 'Earthly trials' thing and just cut straight to the punch."
So, yeah, i'm basically a moron. A saved moron, but a moron.
And, in case there is any confusion; God is awesome, His solutions are great and i have absolutely no right to complain. If i do complain, please refer to the above.
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I will definitely pray for 'problem a' if said problem is not resolved. I hope it's not serious...
i think it's quite paradoxical that we "trust" Christ with our Salvation but yet we don't trust Christ with the day to day. You'd think that in the grand scheme of eternity that your "problem a" would be minute in comparison with eternity with Jesus...but yet again God chooses to save a bunch of idiots running around in circles...
hope you're well...
Thanks bro. I appreciate it.
It may be worth noting 2 things here (completely unrelated to the core concept of the post)
1) Apparently, the lyric to which i was attempting to allude should actually have read "my ego's like my stomach. . ." somehow i mis-remembered it. I think it fits better the way i said it though so ha!
2) Either my song references have gotten too obscure or no one cares anymore.
That was a song reference? Course, I don't care too much for song references, or any references, for that matter. It's not that I detest them, not at all, I just feel that they are extraneous and can detract from the argument.
Call me a purist! Or is that puritan? Mayhap I need a nifty hat!
With all that in mind, I'd like to touch on something Zeke said: That bit about not trusting God with the day-to-day but trusting him with our salvation.
I don't think that that's how we work. We don't think about salvation as an on-going process which can have continuous repercussions. Instead, we think about it as a one-time event. It's easy to "check it off", if you will.
Saved: CHECK!
Day-to-day is not a one-time event. It is an ongoing process. You don't solve a problem with day-to-day and then check day-to-day off your list.
So, I guess my ultimate thought here is that, if we don't trust God in the day-to-day, we don't trust Him with our salvation, either.
Well played Mike. Well played. We don't think of salvation as an ongoing thing. Good point.
One could counter though that it is possible to look at salvation that way and still trust God but fail to trust him for our physical needs.
Then it becomes a question of how we view our spiritual life and why we can trust God for the infinite but not the finite.
Oh, and, yes, sadly, that was a song reference. One of the standing principles of my blog is a little game i like to call "spot the song reference". Well, actually, i don't call it that, but that's what it is. Many of them are obscure though. I'm weird that way.
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