Thursday, March 6, 2008
CAUTION: rant
Sometimes, I hate submission.
I know. That's awful to say, but I have made it my goal to not put on a face of falsehood via blog.
I know that God calls me to submit for many reasons, one of which is for my protection and covering. But sometimes, I just rage against the idea.
I am sick of "friends" who aren't real and people who dabble in mediocrity because they can...because this is America and mediocrity is what we've learned to be content with no matter the situation. What is life meant for? To be lived frivolously? Certainly not! With purpose, I declare! Hear no form of judgement in my tone, but do hear the groanings of a girl who longs to be Godly and who desires to pursue Christ with a strong community or circuit of friends.
Are there any Godly ones out there? Does everyone love self so desperately that the sense of selflessness has been drowned out? I want to learn to be selfless...but is there anyone willing to instruct through his own life?
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If you asked twenty good men today what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you had asked almost any of the great Christians of old, he would have replied, Love. You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative idea of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point. I do not think this is the Christian virtue of Love. The New Testament has lots to say about self-denial, but not about self-denial as an end in itself. We are told to deny ourselves and to take up our crosses in order that we may follow Christ; and nearly every description of what we shall ultimately find if we do so contains an appeal to desire. If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and earnestly to hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I submit that this notion has crept in from Kant and the Stoics and is no part of the Christian faith. Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory.
Yea, but what does CS Lewis know? (insert sarcastic mad laughter here)
Sometimes I'm not very real but your Dad and Mom have loved me since 1981! They've not been perfect but they've been the most consistant "friends" I've had. I am truly a blessed man; not to many people have a Dan & Linda for over 27 years.
Lord willing, I look forward to seeing Dan & Linda's children and grands grow in grace via the internet! Wow, what a day we live in.
Jessica it is great to see you wrestling with grace and truth!
John Gill Bracken - johngb
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