There seems to be this prevailing conflict in my life. The conflict between the humanly good and the Godly right. One would say, “but that’s easy, take the Godly right.” Hold on there…
As can be deciphered from these writings, I’ve been reading Utmost a lot lately. Chambers appears to have fully gotten “it”, however that “it” can be defined. God calls us not to pursue that which is humanly natural for us, but instead, calls us to pursue Him and Him only. And thru that pursuit, we find ourselves in a situation where we can do nothing but depend on Him.
So, the question here, are we to pursue our dreams at all? Sometimes I feel like I’m well past my dreams phase, and other times, I feel like I’m only getting started! (More conflict!) We watched “The Last Lecture” last night given by Randy Pausch. Good stuff. Great advice. Warm, funny and encouraging. Yet, I found it quite humanistic. We allow all this Western culture “pursue your dreams” stuff to drive us.
Now, it may sound like I am a skeptic. Ok, to some degree I am. Maybe rather than skeptic you could say that it appears I am jaded. A cry baby. Byron didn’t follow his dream and is now taking it out on everyone else. Not so fast, buster…
It occurs to me as I ponder this that the message of the gospel, that which God calls us to do, IS so very counter-culture. Western society has wrapped the whole thing together. Culture has tweaked the message just enough to make it SOUND good. Yet, when I add the God element is, it just doesn’t fit right. Not square peg in round hole type of fit, just not fitting quite right.
I am a bit cautious in writing this, even in this non-public forum. Mostly because this is an issue I have debated in my mind quite a bit over the past several years and have yet to come up with a definite solution.
Which leaves me caught between the moon and New York City…
