Wednesday, July 18, 2012

FED

* Only a few more hours to take the poll at right, based on a blog posting earlier this week.

I'm a Keith Green fan ... have been since the early 1970s when I sat there in a little Kansas City church sanctuary on the floor barefoot with some of my friends while he played a baby grand piano and sang his music.

One of his songs said:
'The world is sleeping in the night,
And the church just won't fight, 
'Cuz we're asleep in the light.  
How can we be so dead, 
When we've been so well fed?  
Jesus rose from the grave, 
And you, you can't even get out of bed.'

I can hear the music even as I type those words.

'How can we be so dead, when we've been so well fed?'               --- K. Green

We seem much more aware of ourselves than we are of the world.  We seem obsessed by our own spiritual standing more than those who have no connection with God at all.

Somewhere along the line that got off track.  We worry about conformity to the world but end up abusing Christianity as a shelter it was never intended to be.

O. Chambers says, 'We cannot do what God does, and God will not do what we can.'


We're called to wake up - stop sleeping in the light - and spread the same love of God to others that Christ has freely given to us.

And be blessed.

1 comment:

LA - Heart of a Ready Writer said...

Saw him at Messiah College in PA in the 1970s. What a night.

Those songs still stick.

(OK, I'm gonna try not to take it personally that the captcha code BELOW says "olemom" - especially since I think we might be at least close to the same age. Hehe!)