Meandering Nature of Life

Life often doesn't make sense from our perspective. We are too close to see what God is doing in the world.

Often all of the features of life look out of whack like a broken vase on the floor. In the end there is more to things than we see.

God promises he is working all things for our good. Often life does not seem so.

It is comforting to see the great men of faith in the Old Testament express their confusion toward the nature of life. You see David on the run confused.

You see many prophets and great men of God hopelessly confused on the journey. Often in their moment of triumph they still have no idea what is going on or why things are happening.

The comfort to us is we do not need to worry if we do not see the path or nothing makes sense. To feel confused and bewildered by life does not imply we have not acted faithfully or that we are in the wrong in some sense because our life makes no sense and a Christian brother’s life seems to make sense.

To be different - righteous

Christianity issues a challenge in the world to be righteous. To be righteous is to be set apart. Simply we are to be different than the world.

You see if we are different than the world we must first have a way in which to be different. This is what we find in the bible. Second we must understand the world in which we are in.

Also we must understand that often part of being righteous is to be skeptical of the teaching of Christians and the church. You see other Christians and the church are blessings from God, but they error.

Our brother in Jesus is a blessing to us but he is a sinner as we are and blind as we are blind. Often he is blind in different ways be we all see through a glass darkly.

We are all on the journey together and need to realize that our brother in his moment of giving wisdom may be more lost than we are in our state of needing wisdom.