Priorities
Another year is close to shutting itself down and I am left in that most interesting of places known as reflection. The last year sure has been something and if a year like it never comes around it will be too soon. The one nice thing you learn from being at the bottom, and trust me I have seen the bottom, is you really get a grasp of how awesome the middle and top really are. As a Christian this leaves me wondering what I can do better as well. Yes, I need to spend more time praying. Yes, I need to spend more time in the word. Yes, I am far away from “being Jesus”. And finally, yes, this is okay. I don’t want to settle for okay but it is something to work with. The world doesn’t need more “Super Christians”. It is desperate for real Christians. The kind who struggle, fail, get up and never stop worshiping God in the progress. That’s testimony at its finest and the book of Revelation tells us that testimony is the spirit of prophecy. That prophecy is Christ himself. Christ, not the baby in a manger we remember this Sunday nor the broken man on the cross but rather the king of glory in his glory. As we look towards Christmas I hope that’s it’s not for show but rather a expression of our daily lives. God doesn’t want a good show but rather justice and we are all able to let justice flow.
“I hate, I despise your feasts,
and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings,
I will not accept them;
and the peace offerings of your fattened animals,
I will not look upon them.
Take away from me the noise of your songs;
to the melody of your harps I will not listen.
But let justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. (Amos 5:21-24 ESV)
