A little writing I did this morning as a result of my personal struggle over what my life should be.
The Fix
I think and think about what to do. I try to understand and think through God’s truth for me and the world in general, and I come up frustrated and lost, day in and day out. I believe I can see now, that I need to stop, and just simply seek the presence and relationship with God. I need to get my mind off the answers, and just get connected to the answer giver. Let Him be such a powerful force of presence in me, that His reality in me bears fruit even without my own understanding.
This is an intense struggle for me. This idea of not thinking, not analyzing, not solving, not troubleshooting, goes against everything that I have been, every day of my life. My identity has been found in analyzing, understanding, and fixing things. This way of being goes way beyond the obvious application of machines and mechanisms. I approach everything from this perspective. All my life, but more intensely these last few years, I have been much more deeply analyzing people, culture, religion, thought, philosophy, ideologies, any and all things related more directly to the condition of human struggle and solutions. I’m watching us struggle and self destruct, like a machine that’s in disrepair, out of proper adjustment, and being pushed and pushed, to a catastrophic breaking point. I’m taking it personally, that I haven’t done anything to make it better. Man, I haven’t even been successful at making the machine of my own life what it should be. I feel like I’ve screwed up in nearly every way possible. I’ve failed my wife, my kids, my culture. What went wrong? What continues to go wrong? I know I’m not alone in this. I see the despair, the depression, the nihilism all around me.
Is the problem a physical one? Have we misdiagnosed the human condition? Can we, with our intellectual efforts, and human strivings, bring about a utopian world, or “make America great again”, or, will flesh just keep producing the fruit of the flesh?
Jesus IS the way, the truth and the life. When Jesus overwhelms our flesh, because we surrender it to Him, His goodness, the only goodness that truly exists, does real good, to those we bring Him to.
Want to fix the world, or even just yourself. Stop trying, and turn all your effort to the only one who can really fix anything. Take it from a “fixer” and a “builder/maker”. Our fixing and building is a temporal delusion. As soon as we make something better, it immediately proceeds toward the destruction of entropy. Want to see a better world, I say again, STOP what you are trying, and pursue with all your heart THE ONE who IS good, and does good, and HE, will do good in and through you. This is the hope, this is the change that must take place. All else is failure sooner or later. All else brings division, condemnation, judgement, oppression, depression, nihilism and destruction.
Do not fear, trust Jesus, seek Jesus, and He will save you in ways you do not yet know.