"Never is the enemy's cause more in danger than when a believer, who looks around too see that all traces of God in the world in which they live have vanished, asks why they have been forsaken...but still follow Him." - C.S. Lewis
Maybe its not that bad. I don't quite feel forsaken yet. I've seen better times. I guess some stuff is getting to me. 'Cause really...the world sucks. Everywhere I look, I find pain, injustice, the worst kind of lies. It's everywhere, and it just breaks my heart.
Chatting to a friend last night, he brought some stuff up that just made me want to be sick.
Take, for example, the 'pro-ana' and 'pro-mia' websites. Two sites for young girls that encourage to follow the gods 'Ana' & 'Mia', as they will provide true beauty. Worked it out?
Anorexia and Bulimia. These sites have thousands of girls 'committing' to lifestyles of intense eating disorders, believing that, as the website tells them, they will only be attractive when they are less than a size zero.
Ok, how about the billboards popping up at junctions. The slogan reads "The grass is always greener..."
New website thats started up, quite popular already. Its a dating site for married men and women who want to have an affair.
Seriously...what?!
This is scratching the surface. I've already blogged a bit about the frustrations I have with the 'false christians', the type that believe if someone is gay they have no right to know God, or the ones that will reject anyone who doesn't agree with them.
What about the people in the world that are happy selling children as prostitutes?
What about the people that are happy to force an 8 year old to work 14 hours a day in a brick factory for no pay?
It frustrates me that I'm blind to a lot of what God is doing at the moment. It doesn't help that, in all honesty, my relationship with Him sucks at the moment. It just seems I'm noticing all the worst things, everywhere. I'm sure...no, I know God is doing amazing things countless times a day, whether I see them or not.
The hard truth is this world is so flipping broken its silly. The fact there are pro-bulimia, pro-anorexia and pro-adultery people in this country is just the start. The devil is properly having his way with some things, and that pisses me off.
What gets me more, is I'm pretty sure satan is throwing everything he can at me to bring me down. He actually thinks he can have me.
Heres the punchline though, I've seen God. I could spend the rest of my life with nothing, never seeing another glimpse of His glory, and I'll still blindly obey Him before I give you anything.
So go for it. Bring it on. You'll only lose, and that will make you weaker.
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Apologies for the apocolyptic-ness there!
Word of advice, that I will try to follow myself; Keep your eyes open for the blessings. They might not be easy to spot, but they're there. It was Paul who said that, as Christians, we should be joyful in sorrow. And so I once again finish with the verse I am living my life by at the moment:
"That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong."
It's Monday morning, welcome to a fresh week. Make the most of it folks!
Edit: Lecture just started. 7 hours on 'Situation Ethics'. This could be a genuinely interesting day.
Edit 2: End of lectures, almost. All day on euthanasia...I'm not even gonna think about blogging on whats going round my head this evening.
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