What Is The Message You Listen To?

My cousin’s little boy came into the kitchen on morning and made this bold announcement:  “This is not the way the world is suppose to be.”

That is the same way I have been thinking for sometime now.  The world we live in is not the way it is suppose to be.

And the question is often asked: “Where is God in the -- this that is not suppose to be -- world?

And yet, in the New Testament reading assigned for yesterday we heard: 

….¹⁶for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers—all things have been created through him and for him. ¹⁷He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together.(Col. 1)

….in him all things hold together.

That is:  All things visible, invisible,

  Thrones

  Dominions

           Rulers

  Powers 

 Created through him.

And he “holds all thing together.”

And you might be tempted to ask:  How?

How is the world, that is not the way it is suppose to be, being held together?

I sometimes ask that myself.  And then I realize that I truly believe God has His entire being wrapped around this messy world.  

I believe that God is actively involved in all the unfortunate words spoken, and actions taken. 

We are just not able to perceive it. 

Now, what I am about to write my seem like it doesn’t belong in this discussion.  But it is what I am thinking none-the-less.

In this world  many messages are roaming around in the spaces in which we live, and move, and have our being. 

  

Just yesterday the preacher asked:  “Where in your daily schedule do you make time for the Word of God?  And, and, how significant is the time?

From the Christian Church pastors preach and teach the hope, the love, the truth of God.

Then Politicians stand and speck yet another word. Often  quite opposite of what is heard from the pulpit.

School teachers speak of the importance of a hundred percent test results.  Or, at the very least, seventy percent results.

Coaches talk of the value of a competitive spirit; and sometimes they include the importance of team work.  Yet winning, at all cost, is at the core their message.

From the time children are very small they have all these words — messages — coming at them.  And each voice claims to be the most important message for them to listen to.  

Sadly, God’s voice does not receive much credence. That is not, in my humble opinion, the way it should be.

I am thinking that, just maybe, could be the cause of the mix-up in priorities; that speak louder and are listened to more.

But God is still faithful despite it all.

Because:  ¹⁷He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

That is the message I cling to.  

That is my hope.