What's going on here?

Ever notice everything seems kind of screwed up. Situations, jobs, relationships, and people -- especially people. I mean one day, we're up - next day we're down. Sometimes confidence overflows, next day we have none. Sometimes it seems like things are going right, then the next day it all blows. There is something going on...God. He's trying to get our attention. But we won't listen. For some, the down times finally direct our attention to something we've all said..."there's got to be something more." There is something more. We can't find it because we're continually told to look in the wrong places. We are told to focus on self. We seek more money, more sex, more good times, better jobs, different experiences, different people, travel. And we do this over and over again until it becomes useless. In the long term - it doesn't help. Once everything has been tried, despair and depression sets in. Perhaps it's here that God's spirit can work on us, and lead us to what He has to offer.

Another problem with this chain of action, is that those of us who know better...those of us who know the One who can fix our situations, have fallen into the same tragic process of trying to focus on self and fill our voids with things that cannot help. Not only can we not help ourselves, but we cannot help others.

God is real. He loves us. And His ways are not our ways. What we think we can do for ourselves cannot be done. So despite the laughter, the parties, the good times, the self-indulgence, and all the advertising for these things, we really are tragic creatures. Humanity has no hope for joy, peace, and life unless Jesus Christ is real, and unless He is who he claims to be - "God with us."
Good news...He is real!

Thank God we're not alone in our confusion.