Ruminations and Ramifications

Changing the world

Suddenly the world became larger yesterday, but in a good way.

I was thinking about our drives to change the world, and I realized how humanistic that idea is. I WANTED to change the world at some point. But then realized that the world is already doomed to destruction. It'd be an exercise in futility.

This placed me in a much smaller role than I had ever let roam the back of my mind before. I was now responsible for much less, but I was never more gravely responsible for anything before.

Now I am nothing; I am no one, really. The only identity I ought to claim is that which I have in Christ. And if that isn't enough, then i ought to reexamine whether i am really in Him to begin with.

And now, my responsibility is in my face. It's outlined. It's here. I can't avoid it by saying "well, the task's rather great; I ought to just be a philosopher about it rather than act on it. Others ought to listen to me."

My responsbility is my actions. I am faced with only one thing, really. And ought to refrain from filling up my life with other things. Because if I fill my life with other things, they make the really important things less so. And I feel less responsibility toward them. But when God removes everything and isolates in my life the only thing that matters, it becomes that much more important.

posted by Marcian @ 11:41 AM