Oh how dismissive we have become to consider the things of God. So quickly might we have turned and deemed Him outdated or irrelevant to the reasoned mind. Perhaps we have laughed along as God’s work and ways are dragged through late night monologues or Netflix sacrilege. But wait. Let’s be very cautious here. The stakes are high. Eternity lies in the balance. …for those who pause and plumb the depths of the Sacred Texts, there is the promised reward of new-found truth. True-truth that is internally consistent and externally applicable. Indeed such searching, thinking, and reasoning through the Scriptures is hard, but perhaps that is the very reason to pursue it. Perhaps Lewis is right…”the cowardly thing is also the most dangerous thing”. Cowardly indeed to be so dismissive of this Ancient Text without an honest (and accurate) search of what is introduced as descriptive of God and prescriptive for Man. If the stakes are true, that eternity lies in the balance, then indeed my dismissiveness of the things of God are a most dangerous thing.
2. “Listening to that other voice”
What is the first thought of your day? What is the first voice heard in your morning routine? Is there a text or scroll that first hits your awakened browser? In Mere Christianity, CS Lewis asserts that the real problem of Christian life comes when people do not plumb the depths of the Scriptures nor seek the fruit of abiding with Christ. I agree with Lewis that we are daily faced with a choice … ‘the moment you wake up each morning and all your ‘hopes and wishes for the day rush at you like wild animals.” Your day may begin with a deluge but it must not be what determines your day.
Perhaps with resolve again…take it in hand with determined affection to ‘be fervent in spirit, serving the Lord’. And do it in the first of your day. (Romans 12:11). Yes, dear Christian, it is possible to acknowledge and accept the power now at work in you (2 Tim.2:5) and be fully tuned to Him. Yes, perhaps He is as Lewis says, “…the other voice”. May we turn to Him, may He be our first thought. May we listen to Him with anticipation that our day has begun rightly
What will you choose? Our experience in a surrendered life with Christ begins each morning and your response to the options you face, the choices you make. Think of the deluge of choices as “the lion crouching at your door” (Gen.4:7), “the hopes and wishes for the day which rush at you like wild animals”. May we choose, under the power of Christ, for our day to be different.
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