Aweikinin 21/11/2014

From Psalm 139:1-24

H,

It has to be clear from all that has occurred that God is not what we wish Him to be or what we want to frequently use Him for. In the best pursuit of the much hallowed God-life there is always the bitter pill of almost constant disappointment. He is often fashionably late or in the wrong place. There are enough opiates to make it seem like we mean “God is good all the time”, but that is just what we say because we have been taught to be afraid of His pettiness and how that might mean He would not be “good” the next time. In reality (hehehe…the eponymous “let’s be real here”) there are many times when our prayers and hopes and dreams and crucial moments go unattended.

I know it may seem like I am indicting God. I am really laying the blame squarely on us. I think we are the ones in the wrong place at the right time and, this, most of the time. This kind of thinking has no novelty and it is frankly the cause of much misery in pursuit of God and then the making up of doctrine to guess where God will be and what God might do. It is not that we are wrong so we must find the right way. In the words of that poet, Bono, we must really “stop helping God across the street like a little old lady”. The bible tells us that we do not get answers because we ask the wrong questions. It does not then leave it to our over hyped imaginations. It tells us the questions. We are told how to pray.

We are lost in the most cosmic sense possible. It is not a self help religion. We are not trying to find ourselves. We are simply declaring ourselves willing to be found. We are in an act of surrender. It is the start and the end of the Christian adventure. It is “our father\in heaven\hallowed is your name/your kingdom come/your will be done…”

So, dear friend, what to do but realise the daily call to kneel and ask and be found in love? Nothing. This is not as bad as we think it will be. Being still in God is one of the most active things in ‘real’ life. Those who are still in God get the most done. They are imbued with that eternal weight and glory of knowing where they belong. The humdrum of the rat race is in slow motion to them. There is the speed of light and sound in almost every Godly step. If we let God in there is every promise of something bigger than all our ideas, hopes, aspirations, ambitions, competitions and need for affirmation. He puts the Zoe in life. An open heart in lieu of a restless body will lead us to the things we want the most but do not yet know.