Seth’s World View

My friend, Brent, recently read God’s Smuggler by Brother Andrew, and said it changed his view of what it means to live by faith. After reading it myself, I can’t say it has impacted me any less. Growing up Pentecostal, I’m familiar with the whole “live by faith” idea, and I endeavor to live as such…or so I thought. No, it appears I calculate and reason using my own resources, and hope God will take care of me every now and then. But do I believe that he will? Do I serve a King who has riches, wisdom, and power beyond my comprehension? The answers are No and Yes. My prayers are more often a pathetic pleading, maybe wishful thinking voiced every week or so. What does it mean, though, to believe? And believe so strongly that my life defies common sense? It’s hard to trust someone we don’t know, though. How are we to fully trust a God we don’t take the time to know? Moreover, as one of my friends used to say, “If God wrote a book, would you read it?” Well, He did. And what really gets me, is that there are people in this world who don’t have access to Bibles, and struggle to grow in their faith for lack of having a Bible, and yet, I would rather surf through inane content on the Internet than read the book that God wrote and interact with the God who made me!!!! My stomach churns at the very thought. What is worse, is I rarely pray about the suffering of my brothers and sisters around the world. No, I have much more trivial things to consume my mind. If I sound upset, I am. My heart weeps at this moment. I pray God wastes my life for something worthwhile. Maybe it begins with, “I pray.”