God is so patient! I have been blathering along for two days about my mid-life crisis and then today at the gym, He reminds me that I'm to be about His business. It's eternal. It's all that matters.
I was reading The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns, CEO of World Vision, and almost fell off the exercise bike when I read the following passage that he quoted from someone else about our role in God's plan:
"...if we are obedient to the gospel, if we are following Jesus, and if we are indwelt, energized, and directed by the Spirit, (we can and must) build for the kingdom....1 Corinthians 15:58: what you do in the Lord is not in vain. You are not oiling the wheels of a machine that's about to roll over a cliff. You are not restoring a great painting that's shortly going to be thrown on the fire. You are not planting roses in a garden that's about to be dug up for a building site. You are....accomplishing something that will become in due course part of God's new world. Every act of love, gratitude, and kindness; ... every act of care and nurture, of comfort and support, for one's fellow human beings...; and of course, every prayer, all Spirit-led teaching, every deed that spreads the gospel, ...embraces and embodies holiness rather than corruption, and makes the name of Jesus honored in the world ~ all this will find its way, through the resurrecting power of God, into the new creation that God will one day make. That is the logic of the mission of God." (N.T.Wright, Surprised by Hope)
End of mid-life crisis. (Please remind me if I whine in future posts.)
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