The Urgency Of The Hour
It’s been a time of silence. As I pause in the silent time and look around, I feel the urgency of the hour more and more- and even those who I never thought would sense the urgency are feeling it.
While silence may appear on the outside, the unsettled and unquiet inside is a raging storm. This storm is beginning to manifest itself as frustration and dissatisfaction. There is a slowly growing unwillingness to keep engaging in the status quo. This will eventually manifest in one of two ways: control or surrender.
One person will choose to close the fist tighter and attempt to maintain a shred of something that is familiar. They will hold onto the past, the present, or what they believe to be the future. They will reason it away as progress and wisdom. The other one will give up all their ideas, plans, and what they think should be and give in to the seeming torrent of chaos that is swirling around them.
A closer look at the chaos, however, will reveal that it is not chaos but it is very well ordered indeed. The torrent is meant to bring us higher and everything is being stripped away until all that we have is Him. He is crushing us so that He might comfort us. Not with some false, temporary comfort but a comfort that is real and lasting; a comfort that allows you to live with the pain and sorrow of living a life of meekness; a comfort that comes from a true understanding of love and all that love brings with it.
It’s extremely unpopular to look deep inside and reconcile yourself to the fact to who you really are, but it’s even more unpopular to announce to the world that you are settled with that fact and believe something about yourself that you don’t yet believe about yourself, just because you’re told such, by someone you can’t see and sometimes feel, you’re something you think you’re not. Then you choose to live in that place, confident and sure, as a servant of all. Not a servant in some mystical, impractical, lofty theological way, but in a way that at first hurts and makes you writhe and scream inside because it’s contrary to everything you’ve been told, telling you how you should respond.
Meekness, servant hood, and love are the currencies of the kingdom. Without them we are morally, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually bankrupt.
While silence may appear on the outside, the unsettled and unquiet inside is a raging storm. This storm is beginning to manifest itself as frustration and dissatisfaction. There is a slowly growing unwillingness to keep engaging in the status quo. This will eventually manifest in one of two ways: control or surrender.
One person will choose to close the fist tighter and attempt to maintain a shred of something that is familiar. They will hold onto the past, the present, or what they believe to be the future. They will reason it away as progress and wisdom. The other one will give up all their ideas, plans, and what they think should be and give in to the seeming torrent of chaos that is swirling around them.
A closer look at the chaos, however, will reveal that it is not chaos but it is very well ordered indeed. The torrent is meant to bring us higher and everything is being stripped away until all that we have is Him. He is crushing us so that He might comfort us. Not with some false, temporary comfort but a comfort that is real and lasting; a comfort that allows you to live with the pain and sorrow of living a life of meekness; a comfort that comes from a true understanding of love and all that love brings with it.
It’s extremely unpopular to look deep inside and reconcile yourself to the fact to who you really are, but it’s even more unpopular to announce to the world that you are settled with that fact and believe something about yourself that you don’t yet believe about yourself, just because you’re told such, by someone you can’t see and sometimes feel, you’re something you think you’re not. Then you choose to live in that place, confident and sure, as a servant of all. Not a servant in some mystical, impractical, lofty theological way, but in a way that at first hurts and makes you writhe and scream inside because it’s contrary to everything you’ve been told, telling you how you should respond.
Meekness, servant hood, and love are the currencies of the kingdom. Without them we are morally, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually bankrupt.
posted by John | 11:50 AM
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