Thoughts
Has the wonder of the world stolen your heart for God? Has the sparkle of golden doors and diamond windows on earth, stolen your desire for heaven? Has the world deceived you into thinking this is your home? Are you stymied in this “Sargasso Sea of Fantasy”? Are you happy with it all?
Malcolm Muggeridge describes this problem in his own life and hints at an answer in his memoirs: “In this Sargasso Sea of fantasy and fraud how can I or anyone else hope to swim unencumbered? How can I learn to see with, not through the eye? How to take off my own motley, wash away the make-up, raise the iron shutter, put out the studio lights, silence the sound effects and put the cameras to sleep? … “Find furniture among the studio props, silence in a discotheque, love in a strip-tease? Read truth off an autocue, catch it on a screen, chase it on the wings of Muzak? View it in living color with the news, hear it in living sound along the motorways? Not in the wind that rent the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks, not in the earthquake that followed nor in the fire that followed the earthquake. In a still small voice. Not in the screeching of tires, neither in the grinding of brakes; nor in the roar of the jets or the whistle of sirens; not in the howl of trombones, the rattle of drums or the chanting of demo voices. Again, that still small voice – if only one could catch it.”
Have you stopped chasing God in pursuit of the world? Do you actually think you can catch it? If so, it has only caught you!
David
