Meditations and moments

 Its been a while. A long while. Part from brain fog, part from heart fog and part from needing to be silent.

It is so easy this day and age to be part of the noise. To add to the problem of shallow misunderstood theology and useless burdens cast on our hearts and families by blogs and posts and all the social media things. 

In a dog eat dog America where disagreement leads to a fight, adding to the drama seems fruitless and unnecessary. As AI robs our abilities to critically think for ourselves we find thoughts cast on more and more shallow things rather than using the time for deeper and deeper cultivation. 

Why start to write again now? Our family has been studying in depth the truth of who Jesus is and what is the Gospel. That long with some very sound teaching and excellent books my heart has been stricken for my sisters in Christ. My daughters, family and friends and future friends. The tiny understanding of who Jesus is that we pump out as an "influencer," rather than the Son of Man is heart wrenching. And watching our adult children having to navigate this culture of looking down at their phones rather than looking to the Word is hard.

It seems oxymoronic to blog online as I suggest unplugging. But here we are.

As the leaves turn I feel a deep longing to prepare for Advent this year. A preparation for the preparation! The season as the parable speaks of, when the young women were filling the lamps to await the bridegroom. We are there. In the room filling the lamps...preparing to go wait. 

I have been struck so much recently of how misunderstanding of Christ lead to nominal idol worship of a Jesus like caricature. A mini figure of the Messiah if you will. We have shrunk down He who hold all things together by the word of His power, to a plastic figurine. But we can change that! We can slow down and meditate on the richness of Christ and who He is and the beauty that He beholds! He is after all, all together lovely!

As our libraries and even our phones overflow with more theological books than reformers would have ever owned our dreamed existed, our knowledge of Him is not keeping pace. We look for snippet and "Reel" length versions of what the book or the Bible says. We grab onto sound bites instead of saturating ourselves.

I am inviting you to take a breath with me. Lets slow down, lets stop doing all the things that pull us from priorities. Lets step off this whirlwind madness that we have created and say NO. 

Our lives are but a vapor, here today and gone tomorrow. I ask you this one question.  What if Jesus is truly who He says He is, the Son of God, the Last Adam, the One who is to come again, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world?