When I
look at my life and at some lives around me, it seems we all somehow write our
lives, make life-plans. There is nothing wrong about it at all, of course. You
need to be “prepared“. But how much are we willing to consider our plans only
as “for now“? It is very common frase, but many of us maybe do not allow Christ
to change our lives. Maybe instead of asking God about his will we meet praying
formalism and church pragmatism. We do things we consider as racionally correct
and obvious. We are seeking for thing which are humanly manageable and maybe
that we have our patience only there, where it makes “sense“. Maybe we already
passed those “key“ life-tests and in our age we have the right view and do not
need any changes.
Of
course, I know that previous parragraph was a little bit exagerrated. As
nothing is perfect in church, as nothing is imperfect in the church. That is
why there is the “maybe“. Of course, we are all ready to change as soon as
Christ says. We all realise we cannot do this on our own and we all even in the
middle age opened to this God’s grace, which can turn our lives upside down. At
least that is what we hear on Sundays. But what about our trained life-order?
How willingly are we going to give it up? I understand that church wants to do
missions, but it cannot, because money is the problem. But is it really the
problem? How long have we been doing this? How long have we been used to certain
way and direction?
Few
months ago the contribution of one of my friends took my attention. In the morning, with all his clothes, he stood
up at the edge of the swimming pool (with quite cold water), he looked around
and said: “When was the last time you did something differently?“ Then he
jumped. After he got dried he found out he had left his mobile in the pocket
and now the mobile was completely wet and gone.
I am sure that this is
not a lie that many people practise the christianity, but do not practise
Christ. I am sure that in many churches you can find Ten Commandments and I am
sure that we give practical manual on life during the church servies and
youths. I heard many times that bible is the life-manual. I love my bible and church,
I believe that the bible is the word of God. But I do believe that the Son of
Man is the Lord of the church, he is the Lord of the bible, he is the Lord of
all plans and instructions and law – and he is even the Lord of the Sabbath! Will
Christ find in our “christian principles“ a little hole for his improvisation?
When was the last time you did something differently? Are you afraid that your
phone will get wet? It’s not yours anyway.
