What's the common theme these days? Busy. But when you ask how people are doing, the response then is always followed by a qualifying statement.
Example: "Hey, how are you? I haven't seen you in a while."
Answer: "Oh, you know, same ole same ole. Just very busy! But it's all good though."
The qualifying statement of, "it's all good though," is there to make sure no one can challenge our busyness. Heaven forbid if someone actually cared enough to challenge us in our busyness, which is eating away at us and causing us stress and not fulfilling us in any way shape or form! (But it's all good though.)
One of the questions I often get is, "how do I know what God's will is?" Good question.
Let's start with an assessment of where we are as Christians. Our lives on average don't differ at all in any statistic when compared to non-Christians. (Divorce rate, Suicide rate, financial woes etc...). We as Christians are not sure why we believe what we believe and if pressed for a answer we just get mad and quote a scripture that makes us feel better.
Maybe we have turned God into a non-factor when it comes to fulfilling our lives with meaning. Has God become the worker in the "toll booth" of our cultural Christianity? We slow down just long enough to pay our dues and then speed off into our busy lives again, going where we want to go. Even worse, some feel that they have been a Christian long enough that they don't even have to slow down. They have earned the coveted "Fast Pass" and they think no matter how fast they fly through the "toll area" on the proverbial Sunday Highway to Heaven that it doesn't even matter if they get it right.
Here is what I believe God would want the common theme to be these days;
Be still, and know that I am God. Wait upon His council. Slow down. Get out of your car and shake hands with the toll booth worker, because you need Him to remember who you are. In the Big Picture of Life, He is more interested in YOU than wherever it is you think you are going.
