i think too much again
November 24th, 2005 by boon
I just read an article by Soo-Inn Tan, who is a itenerant minister who writes on issues of our walk with God interrelating to our culture and life in today’s times. In this article, he expounded upon the idea that we should collectively work together from all angles to grow richly in Christ, instead of relying on solely on print and audio tapes.
I must admit that I’ve been thoroughly saturated in the Internet medium and its derivatives, and I spend more time in cubicles and between four walls than I do in the open space. Mom and Dad complain that I hide myself in my room all the time (albeit with my wife now), and they hardly see me around the house. I do have my reasons but I also feel mildly estranged from them at this point in my life.
At the same time, I have a hard time justifying the need not to change what I have now – my career, my home, and my friends. Perhaps these are all teething signs of a newly married man, and it would all start to settle down once…. once I don’t have any energy left.
At the moment, I am vying for two things to happen in my life:
1. We move into our new apartment
2. We go on a missions trip
This is in retrospect to my previous (only slightly less recent) inclinations, which are:
1. get a new car twice the price of my existing car
2. get a raise and a promotion
3. get lots of money and other cool stuff
God does get to me very often. Like a whisper in the wind, a la Elijah in the book of Elijah…. just kidding, 1st Kings. Obviously, material gain and prominence is far removed from God’s highly relational and holy model of living. I know it doesn’t mean that God hates rich people, but instead, God is the very essence of love itself.
Anyway, I think what God is telling me is that I shouldn’t worry so much about the things I need, and even less about the things I want. :þ
Then, I should just stop here and remind myself not to work too hard in separating the material world from the spiritual. I tend to get into knots trying to conceive a reality that’s not been proven, only postulated and preached.
Maybe that’s why we need community… to keep our minds off our minds.