It seems that many things in our culture force us to
compartmentalize our lives. I have great
difficulty with this in various ways. In
much of society we are allowed to be ourselves only to a certain degree. This compartmentalization is not really
healthy.
Who we are is what the world needs. Instead the world decides that the who is not
acceptable in some ways and so must behave differently. We call it political correctness or socially
acceptable behavior. We make up rules that set a level of comfort that
we deem acceptable.
It is not that we do not need some boundaries in society. It is that we use them to make ourselves
better than others. I know I do the same
thing with God. I compartmentalize a
part of my life that I do not wish to subject to Christ. This is an act of faithlessness or direct disobedience
on my part. I think that I can sequester
a part of me from conforming to Christ.
The greatest failures of my life are a direct result or me
thinking I can sequester my faith from an area or my life. There is nothing that is not impacted by my
faith. If I do not do something because
I am aligning it with my faith, it is sin.
There is no way to sequester things from God. I try and fail. Whenever I try to keep things out of the real
of faith I make a part of my faith dormant.
This always hurts me and often hurts others. In Christ is where I must live and move in
order to have any measure of success that matters. For me, anything else is an attempt to hide
something that is already known. It is
only delaying that which must occur to move forward.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer
who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home
owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store."
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