Can't Find My Stuff

In my younger days I had a saying that drove my wife nuts.  I called it "the ministry of place." What was the ministry of place? It was a normal place you put things everyday.  The car keys had a special hook, your reading material had a special place on the night stand etc.  However, as life got busier, I would put things down almost anywhere, disregarding the "ministry of place."  Now that presents a problem when you want to find  that stuff again and you can't remember where you place them. Keys, books, laptop computers, all missing when you need them the most. Suddenly you realized how distracted and unorganized you have become.

Since 2000 the world has become distracted and unorganized. It has experienced a change that has created a turmoil in how we find our stuff.  All media services have been affected by the internet, the investment markets has been in turmoil, which has resulted in all the foreclosures in the housing industry and millions lost their homes. The polarization of our politicial parties has widened due to the worldviews of the today's politicians. The church has not escaped this upheaval, and in recent years we have seen bizarre behavior from spiritual leaders who have yet invented another gospel. There is no longer a normal for anything. Change can be expected, uncertainty looms around every corner, and direction in life escapes us almost everyday. The significance we once found in servicing the Lord becomes  more difficult to experience because people and vision have changed so much. There is a spirit in the world whose job it is to create confusion, blurr the objectives, discourage the faithful, and make everything abnormal from what we know to be true. This is the environment we find ourselves in at work, at church, and at home. No wonder we can't find our stuff, it has all been moved, and repositioned.

In sports when one team has a dominate advantage because of their skill, your play strategy must change. You don't play into that skill level because you'll get beat. However, if you keep them off balance, and force them to play a game that keeps them away from their dominate pattern of play, you have a chance to win. The same is true of our enemy, he is constantly trying to keep us off balance so we play in our weakness and not our strenghts.

The strength of any believer is the Lord, and if our enemy can keep us away from our time with God, and keep us off balance in prayer, Bible study, and fellowship with other believers, then he has got us working through our weakest mode, ourselves. God knows that the last days will be days of discouragement, disruption, and deception, and it's all meant to test the substance of our faith in God.  The world is broadening it's defintion on how it defines life, and the narrow gate of truth in light of this broadening is shrinking to the point it is not being considered as an option for most people. We live in such a broad world, it's no wonder people can't take faith seriously today. 

That's our world.

No wonder I can't find my stuff anymore.  The following scripture is about the coming of the Lord, notice how unaware the people are when it starts to rain.  This decribes our day, we are so broad, we have become blinded to the hour in which we live. 

37As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.  38For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark,  39and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man  -Matthew 24:37-39

Keeping it honest and truthful.....K