God is so much bigger than even our deepest sentiments. No grand rhetoric, finite platitudes, heartfelt homiletics, aestetic reasoning, or romantic verse can come close to describing the greatness of God. We get so caught up in what holiness should look like, what perfection should be that we forget to examine the life Jesus Christ lived while in our midst. We forget that he rent the veil and through Him we have communion with the Living God. God is not only in a feeling, not in a moment, not in a way of life, He is all in all and will be Lord of all. This all to say we do not meet Christ only in small moments of clarity, or pious images of kneeling before him. Yes, you will find him there, but you will find more self service in this place than anything. You will find for yourself rivers "humility" in such moments, but this is not it. Jesus Christ is Lord of all is even in the monotonous moments, in our despair, and in our deepest of loves. It is here you will meet the Lord, we cannot run, I cannot go to a monastery to find peace. The Cross is central in the Bible for a reason. In fact we learn in the word of God that the Son learned obedience by what He suffered. We learn that Jesus Christ layed down His divine power and humbled himself even unto death on a cross. Willingly! Why do we strive for so much and make so many goals outside of the Lord. Don't tell me what you want to specialize in, how many kids you want to have, what your perfect vacation is, who the perfect mate is, how much money you want to make, what your dream car is, what you want or deserve. We deserve death. The world is desperately sick! Everything is wrong! All the cities all of the T.V. shows, all the music, the way we dress, the way we joke and the way we murder. All out of pride. Guilty, we are all guilty. I don't know about you but unless I am reading a different Bible we are called to conform ourselves to His image, to take up our crosses and follow Him, to basically do what He did. He came as a light and He tells us we are a light. He came to show forth the Fathers love and tells us to do the same. I am not buying any of this doctrinal fiasco anymore. Am I pre, mid, or post trib, dispensationalist or covenant theologian, am I a cessationist or do I still believe in the gifts today, is baptism required or is it not, am I Calvinist or Arminian? There are so many more... As we debate these issues the goverment is taking over our job of Charity, the tv is blaspheming and promoting liscentious living and we call it entertainment, people are dying by the thousands we we talk of economic and social reform. Time to wake those who are sleeping, set free those who are in the bonds of sin and know Christ by being like Him in His death.