Negative - Lukewarm –
Self Obsessed
I don’t like to be negative but it is my imagination that in
the UK there are lots of people who are living in a small bubble.
Isn't it great to be with passionate people? People who have
vision, enthusiasm, Mission, concern for the big things? Such people are attractive to be around, they
draw like magnets they are not boring they are challenging, inspiring, and
usually ‘life full’ and often fulfilled people. None of that is negative is it?
Yet around me I see lots of the alternative. Conversation,
both in person and of FB is of the small talk kind. Latest dress, shoes,
entertainment; usually fairly inconsequential, never going to change the world
much less the small space where they dwell.
Often the pressure of life is the things that affect them personally,
the things that they believe will bring them happiness. Joy would not be something understood
here. Sadly the things they want are usually
the ‘me’ kind I guess that is the spirit of the age ‘you are number one’!
The trouble is that this is not true; you are not number
one, those things you aspire for you are really not important. The trouble also
is that if you get them, hold them, usually they, like soap bubbles, will
quickly leave you with just a wet palm. You will be left saying what is the
point of it all? Why? Where? How? What is it for? So sad!
It is quite interesting how much God does not like lukewarmness,
listen to this from Revelation 3:16 So, because
you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out
of My mouth! In other
words God does not want that stuff. God
likes passion!
The reality
is that God comes to give ‘real life’ not boring, self-obsessed, lukewarm,
negative life but real life. John 10:10 says this…
What those who live just for
the ‘me’ or are content with the lukewarm, the selfish life do not understand
is that to really live, have life, we need to be followers, not only that but
when we follow the Son we find that love, meaning, reason to live, purpose in
life, lack of boredom, lack of he question ‘what is the point?’, is replaced by
care and concern for others. We discover that love is expansive (as of course
is Evil) in fact we tap in to it to receive, for the very reason we are here, the love of
God flamed out and it expanded to you and me.
It’s very strange that
parents often say I can love my child but how would I love another one if I had
one, and that’s the funny thing love expands, where there is need of it there
is more of it, especially for the followers.
Being loved is satisfying, purposeful, meaningful and
joyful. I want life I guess, I want others to have it too, and when I observe
those around me who opt for the ‘me’ life I am angry at the robbery I know they
are about to experience. My observations are that they do experience it, it is
such a cul-de-sac. The only way is to
turn around from dead ends; they are just that, a dead end! Turn around and
follow the Son, he will allow you to participate in the Father’s purposes, and
even empower you to see it happen. Why stay in such a self-obsessed, rut.
Adrian Hawkes
adrianhawkes.blogspot.com
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Edited by Gena Areola
19.07.13
