“Just keep your eyes on Jesus”
They say
“Be BOLD Christians”
They implore
God has this
God has your back
God will take care of you
Trust and Obey and it will be OK!
All those aphorisms that are true
Not True
I personally think it makes a difference to believe
That God is
That God is love
That God is woven into the fabric of the universe,
The planet
That God is somehow present in me
The secret of joy, hope, peace, and love
But what does it mean to live that out?
Cause damn!
There are those people who say that Jesus saves
but live as if they have to save Jesus
Who insist that if they don’t put God back
In the schools
The government
The bedroom
The world will be Godless.
And we’ll all go to hell.
(they could write a song about that – when we all get to
hell…..)
Who insist they must set up a bunch of laws
Elect a bunch of control freaks into office
Grab all the power and wealth,
and then control, coerce, and punish people into
obedience
so as to create a “Christian Nation”
Oddly, the harder they try to create a Christian Nation
the less like the Kingdom of God that nation seems
I appreciate the zeal of the overachievers
I just wish they would take a Xanax
There are also those who spend all of their time
Trying to connect with the Sacred
They pore over the Bible
And fill their head with words they arrange
To fit their preconceived notion of God
They pray and worship
And look to the heavens,
Trying to “see” Jesus
Maybe I have it wrong.
But I think Jesus told us.
That if we want to see God,
All we have to do is look at flowers
And children
All we have to do is look in the face of every person we
meet
(Hi Jesus)
In the face of the homeless man,
The immigrant
The person living in poverty
All we have to do is look in the mirror.
I think Jesus said that being a bold follower
Is not about beating people over the head with our Bibles
Or oppressing and suppressing people in the name of faith
Or conquering and subduing
(or eradicating an entire civilization with our missiles)
But about trusting God enough
To share what we have with those around us
To welcome those who are different from us
To listen to those we disagree with
To see every person we meet as a child of God
As full of the Sacred as we are
As loved by God as we are
Maybe I have it wrong.
I probably do
But I’ll keep on keeping on
Trying not to tire of doing good
I’ll keep looking in the mirror
And trying to see Jesus in this face.
And I’ll keep working to act justly, to love mercy,
and to walk humbly with my God
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