Head-dibs

I am just now looking through my blog subscriptions and one in particular has been posting strings of self-help-style posts: “5 Simple Ways To . . .” “4 Warning Signs That . . .” “How To Solve 10 . . .” “30 Second To . . .” “Avoid These 4 . . .” This is where we are, in the age of fast, pat answers. Has someone written a computer program, having found the algorithms of life that produce solutions to nearly every problem imaginable? Don’t be fooled. It’s not that easy. Life is a journey we all make together. We are born, we will die; however, what takes place in the  “dash between the dates” is unique. Where is life’s journey taking us and how do we know we’ve arrived? The beginning is definite, so when did we begin to think the end is nebulous? How is it we’ve become convinced that the challenges of the journey are met with simplistic answers? How did the human race survive before the internet? Seems impossible. One question that cannot be answered in the alg...

Somewhere along the journey When life's hard times get tough, A still, small voice but whispers, “You've wandered long enough.” God understands your “balanced life” And honors all your zeal, He knows you love to worship Him And that your walk is real. He's seen you in the dark of night When no one is around, He's heard you cry out in the night When no one heard a sound. He knows that on the surface You daily bear your cross, But also knows the compromise When you might suffer loss. He loves you; oh, He loves you; Yet His analysis Is, “Child, I love you so much... There's more to life than this.” “There is a deeper walk with Me Let's just call Satan's bluff... Go ahead and say to Me, ‘I've wandered long enough.' “I want to enter Canaan's gates With all its plains and lakes, I want whate'er you have for me; Oh, God whate'er it takes! Lead me to that promised land And may I ne'er return Give me all t...

Have you checked the oil in your car? The air pressure in the tires? The weather? The news? Is everything in order? Ever run a check on your god? Has your god created man on the earth or done anything like that? Has any people heard the voice of your god from the midst of the fire and survived? Has your god tried to take for himself a nation from within another nation? Has your god shown his might and power as God did in Egypt before so many witnesses? Has your god been heard from heaven? Has your god disciplined you because he loves you, as a father loves his children? Has your god driven out nations before his people? Has your god given you an inheritance? Has your god given commandments, that it may go well with you and with your children, that you may live long? ( Deuteronomy 4:32-40 )