“Come to Me…”
It’s so easy in this world to get caught up in “things”, to get to the point that we are blinded by what we think we have. Our education, our cars, our own small worlds that seem so important to us. When we’re teenagers, we think that every little thing is going to have such a huge impact on our lives that we spend most of our time focused on the drama surrounding us. When we’re in college, it’s about friends, freedom, and new experiences. Sometimes this can lead to a more broad view of the world, sometimes this can just serve to put more blinders on our eyes. We think we’re rich, we think we’re smart, we think we’ve got it all together. But we’re wrong.
God has it all together. If we get our riches from Him, then we are truly rich. But these riches will not look like the riches the world tells us we should have. It may even look a bit like poverty, and the world will not understand these riches. Our worldly wisdom can only extend so far until we are blinded, but God wants to give us salve for our eyes so that we can see! For a while now, I’ve been praying that I could see the truth in things. Not for my own gain, for my own understanding, but so that I could effectively talk with people and help to further the Kingdom. This ability can only come from God, nothing we can learn or strive to do on our own can give us the ability to see.
To get through our thick skins, sometimes God has to take some drastic measures and pretty much yell at us to get our attention. To get our eyes off of the shiny things of this world and onto the everlasting things of Him, sometimes it takes some discipline. But God disciplines those that He loves. If He didn’t love us, He could just let us continue in our sinful ways and live any way we choose (and yeah, we would choose sin, every time). We are not such holy beings that we would choose Him and live righteously without any discipline whatsoever.
Oswald Chambers put it well when he said, “Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it. Beware of allowing the influence of your friends or your circumstances to divide your life. This only serves to sap your strength and slow your spiritual growth. Beware of anything that can split your oneness with Him, causing you to see yourself as separate from Him. Nothing is as important as staying right spiritually. And the only solution is a very simple one— “Come to Me . . . .” [Matt 11:28] The intellectual, moral, and spiritual depth of our reality as a person is tested and measured by these words. Yet in every detail of our lives where we are found not to be real, we would rather dispute the findings than come to Jesus.”
Shanna
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