Tangible Kingdom (Week 8 Day 2) "What if…"
August 3rd, 2009 § 1 Comment
I liked what Matthew Hansen wrote about today’s reading. So I figured I’d just post it:
Today’s reading reminds me of the Prophet Tyler Durden’s quote,
How much can you know about yourself, if you’ve never been in a fight? I don’t wanna die without any scars…
Often times to live in this incarnational life seem like a fight – we have to fight what we are used to, what our flesh and self desires, we have to fight culture, and the demands of materialism and consumerism. Then on the other hand, this whole incarnational life seems like a good idea, but due to the business of life, we ‘have’ to wait till tomorrow. The problem with that is, tomorrow is always tomorrow and never today…sometimes you just have to move now, sure it may scar you a bit, and it may get messy, but at least you don’t have to live the rest of your life wondering, “what if…”
Often times we wait for circumstances to get better, but sooner or later we learn life is life, and life is what happened and passed us by as we were waiting for things to line up…
So, what does this have do with being a missional incarnational person/community??? Everything! So, back to the beginning, for many of us (me included) this is a great idea and we will plug in once we…get our time prioritized, the kids are out of sports, I’ve finished school, the summer is over, I get the new promotion, etc, etc…but here is the deal, tomorrow may never come, so let us take advantage of the now…let us dive in and let the messiness and scars tell many stories of the lives we are living…NOW!
Today’s reading reminds me of the Prophet Tyler Durden’s quote,
Often times to live in this incarnational life seem like a fight – we have to fight what we are used to, what our flesh and self desires, we have to fight culture, and the demands of materialism and consumerism. Then on the other hand, this whole incarnational life seems like a good idea, but due to the business of life, we ‘have’ to wait till tomorrow. The problem with that is, tomorrow is always tomorrow and never today…sometimes you just have to move now, sure it may scar you a bit, and it may get messy, but at least you don’t have to live the rest of your life wondering, “what if…”
Often times we wait for circumstances to get better, but sooner or later we learn life is life, and life is what happened and passed us by as we were waiting for things to line up…
So, what does this have do with being a missional incarnational person/community??? Everything! So, back to the beginning, for many of us (me included) this is a great idea and we will plug in once we…get our time prioritized, the kids are out of sports, I’ve finished school, the summer is over, I get the new promotion, etc, etc…but here is the deal, tomorrow may never come, so let us take advantage of the now…let us dive in and let the messiness and scars tell many stories of the lives we are living…NOW!