Considering answers to those faith-questions we all ask…
Category: DEVOTION
How did Lazarus feel as he laid at the rich man's gate suffering, day after day? No-one cared for his condition or for his broken heart. What was going through his mind? We can safely assume that he had thoughts such as these: "Nobody cares about my suffering". "Where is God? If He cared He would help me". "I'm alone. My life isn't worth living".
Human beings the world over and throughout history have tried in a multitude of ways to get the attention of God. They've built statues and enormous temples; they've danced wildly under the moonlight; they've burned people alive; they've chanted and shouted on mountain-tops; they've starved themselves, cut themselves, and gone to war... all in an effort to make God look their way. It's a grown-up version of the tizzy-fits children sometimes engage in, in a determined effort to get their parents to respond.
The phrase, "the tip of the iceberg" is a common metaphor for things of consequence which are only visible or detectable in part. In comparison they are almost entirely beneath the surface, unseen and unappreciated. The most significant fact of course, as the sad story of the Titanic tells us, is that the unseen part is every bit as real and as solid as that which is seen. So it is with life itself.
Many of us secretly or even openly wish we were special in some way. We admire the celebrities, the successful and the achievers, and we quietly judge ourselves for being plain or for being nobodies. Yet almost all of us miss the one simple opportunity to become very special.
Isn't it interesting that you can at the same time want your foot to go one way and yet make it go another. You can want to do something and yet not want to do it.
