Speaking of Problems..............

There has been a belief maybe more like a wish that connecting with Christ as Lord and savior would somehow make everything better and by better I mean easy. I say a wish because I know of no one who says life will b easy but that is really what we want. We are usually approaching God form some desperate position or situation and what we want is out of the spot we’re in. Quick, easy and painless a solution that fixes it all and al is fixed in one simple easy step. The trouble is God does not work that way. Have you noticed that?
In our small groups we have been looking at prayer, its’ purpose and practice. In this past weeks’ material the following questions and their oxymoronic counterparts were presented.
Consider this:
If you want to be trusted with more? ………………. Then how much do you trust?
If you want to be depended on to do great things?................... Then how much do you depend on God? I would add how dependable are you?
If you want to be loved more?................................... Then how much do you love?

We usually approach difficult problem as to how someone else will solve them. It seems that Christ would solve them in and active not a passive way. I remind you he said if you want to live you must die. If you want to lead you must serve. The first will be last and the last first. That’s a problem.
It doesn’t make sense in the world I live in. You lead by leading and getting others to do for you. You are first because you got there sooner and smarter. You depend on no one but yourself. People will love you because you have power and wealth not because you love much. That is weakness.
The problem is Jesus calls us to “come and see” like he did the first disciples. However, before long he asked them to “come and die.” That is a whole different matter. That whole different matter is the problem. Christ calls us to a radically different life with a radically different perspective on the whole thing. I think we are NOT RADICAL ENOUGH. That causes us to wrestle with only a half way commitment in either reality. Therefore the problem of problems, we don’t fit in either place. Let’s get radical so that the words for Away in a Manger will be true, “and fit us for heaven to live with thee there.”