brain vomit.

24Dec11

house to house caroling, themed dresses and trousers, bright lights,
Christmas hats, extravagant decorations, over-elaborate Christmas songs,
big grins, big hearty laughter, gospel reading, random walking,
youth doing a bunch of crazy, random stuff.

Christmas was all that for the most part of my teenage life.

tonight there was a noticeable air of difference about Christmas,
the collective skepticism that built around forms a callous.

we’re all benumbed and desensitized.
the so called ‘Christmas Spirit’ has withered.

at least that’s what i see.
it’s not just in my church, it’s not just Christmas…

it just became obvious in the light of Christmas celebrations
of what was supposed to be.

have we become a generation of a constant breathing in of depression
that it is normal to be unhappy, disgruntled for all the days of our lives
for all we care.

tonight’s play “Hope Will Come” couldn’t have been more timely.

it’s not the most creative of plays,
not the most impressive of sets,
not the most extravagant of backdrops,
not the most touching either.

but i felt a subtle impact in the message behind it.

we’re a people deprived of God, really.
conspiracy theories after conspiracy theories.
debates after debates.
atheists after atheist.
skeptics after skeptics.

it is so easy to be buried in all this, to not care, to be indifferent about it.
to accept what our friends views about Jesus which are rather murky.
facebook posts, tumblr posts, blog posts of half truths and whole lies
that sound like perfect sense.

that’s it, we try to make sense out of everything.
God cannot make sense. God doesn’t make sense.
therefore we deduce that God is nonsense.

but how can God be God if we can make sense out of God?
if we can predict His every move,
if we can put Him into part of our system where we can achieve our purposes.
if we can comprehend Him.

that just makes Him a really powerful but uncreative being.

was on my way home in Gilbert’s car when a Christmas song played on the radio.
it was filthy. filled with sexual innuendos and blatantly filthy lyrics.
that’s just a picture of how the world is right now.

it doesn’t matter that Christmas literally means celebrate the Messiah.
it’s just another name for another public holiday, where we get to make out
under a mistletoe and check out sexy santarinas in skimpy clothes.

so stop apologizing for the Gospel, the Bible, stop apologizing for your faith.
or they’re gonna ruin every bit of it.

this is not a rage post.
i’m not angry at atheists, i’m not angry at Christians, i’m not angry at skeptics,
nor am i angry at God.

i’m just curious about what has become of us. the church, the world.
dictated by a few tyrants  whom we know nothing about.
in a world where everyone is believable but not trust.
not the CIA, not the law, not the lawmakers.

have we gone past redemption?

have we stopped trusting?

have we stopped feeling?

the important question is,

have we stopped trying?

CBC. more of us are leaving, more to leave.
any given excuse at all is a good excuse to leave.

it’s one thing to believe, another to trust.

as I end this post, it is now 0000hrs on Christmas day.
Merry Christmas Saviour, thank You for the greatest love., as the greatest gift.

-zachsiow

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