Chasing for God...

So as I am typing this, Suz is talking with one of her good friends from college on the phone. She called yesterday as well to inform Suz that her husband of just over a year is leaving her. He said that he doesn't love her anymore and that he never got a chance to live life. Suz and I are so sad for this couple and for Suzanne's friend especially, who didn't see this coming. This trend is way too familiar in our culture and one that is spreading. When people take lightly the commitments that they are making at the alter, they will take just as lightly breaking those promises when a rough patch comes along.

Every married guy, and I would assume every lady too, probably knows what it feels like to be in a situation of un-certainty, with regards to their marriage. That un-certainty can last a second or a lifetime depending on how you deal with it. I am reading a book right now called True Faced, it deals with this sort of issue, where we rely on putting on masks to hide what we are really thinking, feeling, or dealing with. The point of our masks is to keep people out of our hurt and essentially out of our healing process. We use these masks with the people that we love most and with God too...

I normally do not write blogs like this, but felt that this was a topic worth writing about. The truth is that our friends husband is leaving his wife to quench a thirst that is not quenchable by sex or drugs or endless parties. So many of our problems are the result, I am learning, of un-resolved sin. Sin that has been either let out by us, or taken in by us, and we refuse to do anything about it. Sin that just sits there will always lead to more sin! We will look at other situations as more favorable and more exciting than whatever we are in. When we buy into the "Grass is always greener" mentality we buy into one of the biggest lies that satan ever threw at us. We buy into the lie that the money, the other person, the other pleasure is always going to be the final thing that makes us happy.

God is the only thing that is going to quench our thirst. This could be something that is overstated but it is surely not overused. We often are running to all different things before we try running to God. Even in seminary it is easy to place God on the side and just "do" godly stuff, without actually connecting with the Creator. This is what you and I have to fight against daily.

No matter if you are in seminary, or if you are in a marriage, or single, the priority has to be God. Apart from Him we have no chance. Even with Him we are not guaranteed a life of fun. As Christians, we need to be the first to drop all of our masks and let others into the real us. We need to show others that even though we might be just as big of a scum bag as the next guy, that is it only by the grace of God through Christ that we have a chance at heaven. It is so simple to say and so difficult to live out.
I will pray for you as you do this and experience this with me. Please let me know what you think by leaving a comment or writing me at timcooper4@yahoo.com
Thanks for letting me babble, and please pray for Suzanne's 2nd interview with Denver Children's Hospital tomorrow (Thursday).
In Him
Tim