A Generalization

We are all discontent in life.  Namely with our relationship to this Giant Divine Being who magnifies more light than the sun to earth.  

We go to church.  Two hours.  We leave.  Let's say we go to a Bible study too, but you know how that routine falls apart during the summer months.  

We attempt Christianity with our own thoughts, our own opinions, and our own ways of doing things. Hence the disgustingly long list of different sects of Church.

And I will say, we utterly fail at this Christianity thing.  Hence Christ, the entire point.

So we go about our days as best we can following God. That means all sorts of things anywhere from holding a quiet faith by way of loving our own family, to grabbing a bull horn preaching during the rush hour home.  And during any one moment we are pursuing the Divine.  And during any one moment we are displeased with our pursuit.

The discontentment with our faithfulness comes from a drive to be more Christlike, to do more in the loving service and name of Jesus, to know more since knowledge has been a very enticing gain since Adam and Eve's day; we are driven to love more intensely and with more intention because love is the greatest act of intimacy we human beings know.

I say we know love very loosely because I think we have yet to encounter the fullness of God's love in our lifetime.

This discontentment is the ignition in driving us to be intimate with the Divine.

to be continued...