God... Do you care?

Society never seems to report the good news anymore. When you look at CNN, ABC, and 60 minutes there are no more feel good stories of bravery in the world. There are no images of hope, just despair, calamity, and confusion in the midst of spiritual guerrilla warfare.

We are consistently bombarded with tragedy, death, and  the epidemic of senseless acts of hostility. These moments of violence,  give rise to concentrated moments of silence that deflate our communities black voices! In the midst of this cancerous storm my main concern is what is God’s role in today’s traditions? Has God fallen asleep at the most inopportune time in culture? Has Jesus forsaken us, or did he hit the snooze button?

As I write this I always look to the heavens for a refuge to prevail the flood waters of the storms that come to block what I sea in me. The waters subside sometimes, and other times the waves of sin and frustration crest above me as I kneel to ask God, do you care? Are you really seeing the pandemonium that comes to destroy your children?

Often times I ask cry out to you and ask why do the unrighteous around me ascend to places I have never scene?  They do whatever they like, break all the rules allowable. God are you amused? Am I too righteous to selfishness that I misread your need for me to be selfless? I know I am not alone in feeling this way! I have heard the testimony of even the most seasoned of disciple for the Lord. Yet at times even their authentic run on seems turbulent at best.

Membership of your church alone will not keep me from the examination and suffering that the world shackles at my feet. Doesn’t the double dare of a physical challenge curb the enthusiasm you endow at my feat? God if you care for me why have I been taken off course only to stay on par with the spoils of the week?

As in Mark 4:35-39 we follow God when he calls us to move. We have a need to respond, an urge to go to the other side with him! Jesus always extends the invitation, and gives us counsel when we are judged by the peers of fury, ridicule, and public surveillance . 

We come to God from different places, but we all are wounded, worried, and in sin. Isn’t it ironic that the storms didn't go away when we started to march with him? Truth be told squall got stronger, tempest got longer, while we took on more water! 

What is  type of relationship is that? A tug boat of hope? A sailboat of spam mail? Is God sleeping on his  pillow of comfort on the other side of our examination while we fend for ourselves? The answer to all these questions is mind boggling. 

I’m always in deep thought when I think about if God really hears what I have to say does he see what I have to go through? If he does why don't I get a warning shot? A chance to romance the vision of a remix of a surreal nightmare into a translucent dream!  He said he would never forsake me, so why am I out here in a sea of doubt all alone on a plankton of wood combating the ordeal of the Titanic hindrance of things I can’t dream?

God doesn’t forsake or leave us. In our minds he leaves the physical presence of what we can see, and he blinds us to tap into the reserve he has left us with! Remember God doesn’t send us to war without the proper garb to encounter conflict with. The battle we lose is that we are not spiritually organized to contest struggle. We can't resist what we don’t know how to sea! How do you know what's out there if you don't believe?

Has God really forsaken us and left his post unattended, or have I been consistently watching God, while wisdom of him leaves me? Interesting questions! Do I see God for what he can physically do while I dismiss what a blessing he has been on the inside? As superficial children we take for granted the works that are indwelling on the inside!

Looking back hindsight is 20/20! When God extends the invitation he already knows where we are going! Wow! Now isn't that a newsflash! Or are we still being humbled! God never leaves when we fall. In our human character we slumber and lose sight of his wonder and miracles. The lighthouse of faith is lost as we leave a shore thing!

Still we think God has left us at that moment of truth. The moment our maturity in him shows and out comes our rebellious youth!  When we need him the most we throw tantrums and cry out "God went and turned ghost!" My storms arrived when I  had life on cruise control!

Mark 4:38 shows us that God was comfortably sleeping. On a cushion! Turmoil was going on around the ship! A storm had been percolating, and the ship was swamped with everyone’s desolation and anguish!

All we can do sometimes is act like the disciples in Mark. “God, don’t you care if we drown?” We lose sight of God because we lose the faith that indwells within us! God gives us those things we need to combat our fears, and apprehensions of  humility!

What do we have to be afraid of? We have the faith that was given to us! All we have to do is be quiet, and keep still while God does his work! Often we look to abandon ship.We look to take on more water by trying to move around in our own natural catastrophe! Have a devoted reliance in the assured confidence and  conviction of God's loyal trust!

All we have to do is ask! So simple, yet effective! Ask, Seek, Knock! We suffer because we ask not, but we try everything WE can do! We question with words like: is it me? Is it him? How come? Why? What for? Stop the interrogation at the station and make your one phone call to step out on FAITH!

Too often we choose to move from God when the emotions of the ocean rock the boat. The more we try to straighten out, the more tangled a web we weave in despair! Why do you have to awake Jesus. He is already  alive breathing in your heart. We call on God when we are in trouble, and not at the first sign of a dead end!

We all have hostility towards God when we feel left in the cold! God doesn’t care we exclaim! If he was real I wouldn’t be in this condition! God fell asleep when it came to my life! Well well look at that, ye with little faith will question even his eternal affection.When God shows up he shows out! 

God the world is messed up! Did you leave me? Yep you sure did! After I look again I see, you believe enough in me to leave me the direct connections of love to navigate to the goal of life without parole. My purpose is forever yours, eternally yours I will be.

Church!

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