You don’t need to go at life- life gets all over you, faster than you know what to do with it. Like a jail warden, life comes at you with chains and cuffs, always wanting to chain you in something. So as not to be chained in the pressure of bills and meals, you run off to school or take a job and give yourself wholeheartedly to it. Soon enough, you recognize its camouflage chains. The career or job gives and probably pays you a lot, but locks you up even more in the process. The entanglements are everywhere. There’s always a next thing to pursue, a next target, a next acquisition, a challenge to surmount, a grade to make… Academic pursuits, work, family, commitments, and maybe even personal struggles or the entanglement from a heart crowded out with memories or experiences that hurt and haunt. Life, by default, is always going to crowd everyone out. But we can’t afford to do life in the crowd; else we’ll eventually be crowded out and away. You’ll get old before realizing you never really lived your life. You’ll loose precious moments and relationships before realizing they were once right before your eyes. There’s a profound scripture in Hosea that I think paints the picture clearly: Ephraim has mixed himself among the peoples (gotten caught up in the crowds) Ephraim is a cake unturned (His life is unbalanced). Aliens (pressures, challenges, etc.) have devoured his strength, but he does not know it; (it happened too fast for him to realize) Yes gray hairs are here and there on him (he’s getting old!) yet he does not know it (it’s happening too fast for him to realize) Hosea 7:8-9 NKJV, brackets mine
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 06:43:17 +0000
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