Tuesday, August 18, 2015

IF THIS BE MADNESS (2)

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Christianity doesn’t make good sense  This business of thinking of other people before yourself.  Giving away money instead of keeping it.  Sacrificing time and energy in some idiotic expression of benevolence.  Wearing out your heart and head over other people’s problems when you have enough of your own.  The only thing that makes sense is selfishness.  Get all you can.  Keep all you can.  Let the other fellow get by as best he can.  Create your own private little corporation of greed and selfishness. 

And there are those who would acclaim with pride that this is where they stand.

But then...

There are three divine imperatives in the Christian faith and they do make consummate good sense.

The three divine imperatives are justice, love and mercy.

These three divine imperatives do ideed make good sense but what doesn’t make good sense is our refusal to too often  practice them.  We certainly can’t blame ignorance for our behavior. We know enough about Christ divine imperatives.  It’s the "not doing" that doesn’t make sense.  Or as man named Chesterton commented, “Christianity has not been tried and found wanting.  It has been found difficult and not tried.”

Put it this way.  “For all practical purposes (and please note the word practical) a man’s real god is what he finds pleasure in thinking about, zest in pursuing and satisfaction in obeying.

You know why more Christians don’t act like it and in the process inspire more non-Christians?  Well, I think sometimes we’re so busy claiming the rest of the world is going to the dogs we forget to examine our own kennel. 

Despite our faults and our weaknesses Christianity is still alive because generation after generation have kept it alive.  It made sense.  It makes sense.  And we certainly don’t want to be like the teenager who while dusting the living room one Saturday morning shouted outside to his mother on the porch, “Mom, you remember that vase which has been in the family for generations?  Well, this generation just dropped it.”  And the church could/should grow more.

It is the year 2012 and the Lord looks down and asks, “Who will speak for me?”  And thousands answer back, “I will listen to words about you but I will not speak out for you.”  And others answer, “I am young and vital and far too busy with other things.  Wait until I get older and have more time.”  And those already older say, “I am old and tired, ask the young.”

What do you believe?  And how stubbornly do you believe it?  The Psalmist writes, “If the foundations be destroyed, what have the righteous been about?”
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