The Point of It All

Some time ago I wrote a post talking about the extra-ordinary life I wanted.   Well.  God has given it to me.  And it's as bloody and hard and time intensive as I thought it might be. (Bloody hard even.)

In the midst of this, I've been hearing a voice say that God is pretty far away just watching.  Just checking it out as I and those around me slog through the muck we live in.  That although we're commanded to the righteous life, we don't really have the power to live it.  To conquer ourselves and our sin and our fear and live free.

John Mayer has a lovely little song called Gravity.  A lot of these days I've been feeling like the lyrics are the script of my life.  Gravity....has taken better women than me.....

Keep me where the light is.

Because that voice that's been saying there's no help?  No hope.  No future to offer those around me.  No power in Jesus name.  That voice is a liar. 

Keep me where the light is.

Does the Divine change lives for real?  Offer hope for sure?  Make something out of nothing?  Is there a point to all of this living righteously?

Oh yes.

 Numbers 23:19 

God is not a man, that he should lie,
   nor a son of man, that he should change his mind.
Does he speak and then not act?
   Does he promise and not fulfill?

And something that Jesus gave me this morning:

I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.  

We belong to the Overcomer.  To the one who takes trouble and storms in hand and says peace, be still to it.  

And at the end of the day I still choose the narrow road.  I still see the power in the Name that will cause every single knee to bow.  That the Word who spoke the universe into being still speaks to human lives.  That the one who knows how thick my hair is cares about the details of my trouble.  

Keep me where the light is.  Because the Light is the point of it all.