I was looking back this morning in my journal (something I don’t do very often) and I came across some notes in the August 16th entry that sparked some thought this morning. At the time, I was reading a book about our calling as Christians (“The Call”). On page 196 of the book, the author makes an interesting comment (this is a paraphrase, not an exact quote):
Our modern world has shifted from:
“There is no God”
to
“There is no need for God”
I think there is a lot of truth in that statement. God has become largely irrelevant in our culture…many people simply don’t think about God any more. And this “thinking” has created a generation of “practical atheists”…they wouldn’t come right out and say there is no God (in fact they’d likely say just the opposite, that they believe in a God)…but in practice, in their daily lives they live as if there was no God (because they don’t need Him).
And I’m not sure this phenomenon exists only in secular circle either…I think many Christians behave much the same way. Many simply don’t think and don’t live like we need God in our lives (until we are in real trouble anyway). Do we take God with us everywhere and everyday? Does he truly matter in our daily lives? Or is He an afterthought?
I wonder…
I know I fit that bill. Part of it, too, I think is maybe not really knowing “how” to need God on a daily basis. Does that make sense?
The other day I was thinking that I sure go through a lot of “motions” in my life in regards to my life as a “Christian”. I dunno…I’ve been really thinking hard along these lines lately — call it a faith meltdown, I guess — I need to journal on it and collect my thoughts and then maybe blog about it.