When the world seems to have lost its mind, what do you do? As the world is going insane, where do you find sanity?
It has become apparent to me that one sure way to invite crazy into your life is to allow some distance between you and God. Personal desperation enters into one’s existence, I believe, when you seek something other than the kingdom of God first.
You want to deal with crazy? Simply say, “Hello, world.”
I am reminded by a minister friend of mine that being a Christian should be a full-time job. You don’t get summers off, and there is no Spring Break. That includes nights and weekends.
You can never get too comfortable with how well you think you’re doing in doing God’s will. The reason I say this is because the devil is ever vigilant. When you get tired, he’s got a bed for you to sleep in. When you’re thirsty, he’s got what you think you need to quench it. When you lose focus, guess who has the perfect maze to seemingly satisfy your imagination?
If you’re not careful, you’ll wake up one day thinking you’re close to God, only to find you’ve really got Satan riding shotgun.
For me, Mama’s favorite Psalm 23 rises like cream. “Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for you are with me.” This passage came to me once when chaos reigned. I was amazed at how trivial my problems became once I focused on this message.
It was the “with me” part that hit home. I realized that somehow, for all that I was going through, God wasn’t with me. I had kind of let Him fall by the wayside, and you can guess who was playing the role of sidekick. At that moment God let me know somebody was in His seat and He wasn’t having it
I wound up on my face one night in prayer, wondering what in the heaven was going on. I’d forgotten Psalm 22. “All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations will bow down before Him, for dominion belongs to the Lord and He rules over all nations.”
Right! Immediately I began to close that gap I was speaking about. Once again in prayer, I submitted everything I have and everything I own. It’s all His anyway, and I am blessed in every respect to know that basic truth because of Christ’s sacrifice on the cross. That fact will help you when you see the madness occurring in this world.
