On my personal blog ‘garythepreacher.com,’ which I write solely for my own enjoyment, I have divided up my writings into several categories: The Word, in which I like to show Gods goodness from his Word, The World, in which I like to point out social justices and injustices around us, and The Way, in which I reminisce about the places we have been. All this, I repeat, is put down for my own entertainment. And often I usually push these over onto Facebook for your inspection.
The travelogue aside, I seem to find more response from my readers about the things of the World than the things of the Word. And this sorta concerns me.
I would that we could all camp out under the stars of his Wonderful Word, and spend less time in the madness of the moment. But a columnist for the New Yorker magazine once said, “What bleeds is what leads,” and so it seems.
The things of the world are wearisome and empty. The things of the Word are reliable and eternal. The things of the world are both trivial and timely, while the things of the Word are timeless and true. But, again, what bleeds, leads.
Someone recently wrote that we have abandoned the moral high ground for the muck and mire of modernism. We have become enlightened at the expense of integrity. We are rising to the summit of ignorance in our quest to hide the past below us.
Only God and His Word can return us to the firm foundations of the past. “I am the way, the truth, and the light’, He told us, and “I will never leave you nor forsake you.’ What sweet comfort there is in that!.
“My yoke is easy and my burden is light”, and “Love the Lord your God, and love your neighbor as yourself.”, are timeless and honorable and true for any and all generations. And a balm for the drudgery of the day. Maybe we just need to spend more time at it’s source.
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