So we're talking another recession. Jobs are going away at a record pace. We're all wondering what is next, unless we're corporate head honchos who are making bigger profits than every before. What's to do?
I know I sound like a broken record, but the Bible addresses life: "So here's what I want you to do," writes Paul at the beginning of Romans 12. "God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life -- your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking around life -- and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him."
In other words, this is your life. It's given to you. Make of it the best you can with God's divine help. Make your body a living sacrifice. "Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God."
I can't find a reasonable argument that says we've haven't stopped doing that. Though technology has grow and developed and changed our culture, one of the things it certainly has done is take the attention away from God. Can anyone argue that the church hasn't stopped being the center of community life? Is life better? Can social networking (even as I blog daily) not take attention away from God unless we make certain we keep it on Him. As I do, or try to do.
That's where we are. We've taken our attention and placed in everything elsewhere. God notices. He really does.
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