We are not satisfied.  Our culture tells us that we need more.  We are falling for the big lie that we are not supposed to be satisfied with Christ alone.  We are wearing ourselves out trying to make things better financially and physically, but we have forsaken the spiritual.  Jesus said that he who sought to save his life himself would lose it, but we don’t really believe that anymore.  We have become god and are attempting to use our human “power” and “might” to fix things that only God can fix.  The best we can do is put a bandaid on a compound fracture.

As a pastor, my prayer for the church in the West is that she will not fall victim to the spirit of “Just do it,” and “Obey your thirst.”  Trials and temptations come to strengthen our faith in someone who is greater than ourselves.  However, the problem is not the world, it is us.  Let’s recover our sense of awe of God by meditating on his word in scripture such as Psalms 23 which tells us “that the Lord is our Shepherd, we have everything we need.”