The Call of a follower of Jesus does NOT include obsessing with everything around us that seems to counter the way we would like the world to go. If you are there, you’ve lost the joy and peace of your call from the God of the universe, as my poem below attempts to remind us:
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If we fall
For what we see
We’ve lost the call
That is ours to be
“Pick up your cross”
Were His words to us.
Not look around
To gripe and fuss
A simple call
“…and follow Me.”
But hard it is
When obsessed are we
So take your eyes
Off all that’s wrong
And turn your mind
To what’s unseen
When life is lived
As Jesus did
What gripes you now
Will soon be rid
Our minds will seek
The Call of Life
The Way of Truth
Away from strife.
So focus our minds
On what’s unseen
Priorities will shift
From now to then
What lasts will call
Not fleeting things
Eternal will rise
Over temporal flings
Our neighbors’ needs
Will waken our thoughts
As their souls cry out
We’ll connect the dots
So trust and obey
This is our call
No matter if
It’s big or small
“So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” 2 Corinthians 4:18
When our minds are focused on the unseen, our priorities will shift to eternal over temporal; lasting over fleeting. And that which lasts forever, the souls of our fellow man, will be our priority, versus those things that merely satisfy (or anger) for a moment or two.
