Okay... here's an interesting thought...I'll have to add this to my notes for my course:
What good does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul....
Hmmm... We've taught this as the importance of keeping the world at bay. I'm not sure that this is what Jesus was trying to say.
Soul - mind, will and emotion...
Soul - love....
My thought at this point seems to be this: Let's look at that statement again:
What good does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his love for people.
My my... I know what is like. I've been there. I thought my world was crashing down around me 14 years ago. The world as I thought God had intended for me crashed. The economic of how I viewed ministry was totally different back then. My dream was to be in ministry at my local assembly however God had other plans. I thought I had the world by the tail then the "cat" got away from my grip. When my world crashed, I lost love for people. I lost my desire for what ministry is all about: people. I struggled for years with that. I wanted to be in ministry but I so easily forgot that ministry is about people...love for people. I loved God...but I didn't love people because of hurt.
I sense in my heart a restoration of love for people. I pray that I don't lose sight of that. The econmics is love. When I have love for people then I have the whole world. But if I seek only the whole world and not the people who live in that world, then I'm missing out.
A different thought... I'm not sure I totally have it altogether..maybe I should have let it simmer on the stove for a little longer...It just caused me to think...hope it causes you to think too.
I know exactly what you mean about things crashing around you 14 years ago, I was bitter for a very long time and it took a lot of time and a lot more prayer to get through it.
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