How many more wrecked lives will invite me in for a closer look - lives lived within reach of tried and true solutions that, if embraced, could have eliminated their wreckage causing chaos?
Since it's what I do, how many more church people, Christian people, will come my way that live way below the promises guaranteed them by God? Some of them have made bigger messes of it than those with no faith.
Before I puff up too much and overstate my case, I recognize that some things are beyond a person's abilities to control. So let me confine my rant to controllable things and those miserable people who exercise no self-control.
Why shoot yourself in the foot? Why embrace mental anguish where there could be creativity. Why self-inflicted wounds over health? Why so much serially bad decision making when clarity is at your finger tips?
Because we are content to live without it.
Living below God's blessings or being a serious but stale Christian trudging along without a fresh sense of Presence has no good explanation.
The only solution I can see is a massive dose of discontent. Discontent - unwilling to settle until things change, I change, my attitude changes, I let God change me and I change my mind. No easy road. No small task. Nothing else suggests itself. I'm sure there's a Bible word for it.
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