How is it that we are supposed to live, anyway?

February 25, 2009

Today's Reading: Leviticus 22-23 and Proverbs 16

Lately, I’ve been attending a lot of Christian meetings, and the big question is how are we supposed to live. You see, most Christians, when they try to evangelize, they tend to become these robots who are trying to convince people to live like we do. However, if we fail to mention to others that we are Christians, then it might be that they could die, and we might feel that we’d fail to do our duty.

Sometimes, it is hard to tell what to do all the time. I remember when I first read the book of Proverbs, and the translation stated that the Proverbs of Solomon can help us out in any situation. Of course, I was hooked from the start, and then I went out and lived my life. It seems like there isn’t much black or white, but smatterings of gray.

After all, all a person’s ways seem innocent to him, but it is the motives that God seems to care about. There is also another verse that about committing your way to the Lord, and you will succeed.

So how then should we live? Francis Schaffer, a great Christian philosopher, once asked that very same question. He wrote a book that didn’t really answer the question, but it did talk about some cool history of Western culture.

The truth is, I’m not certain what I am really supposed to do with my life, but I know that I like to write, and so I do it. Since I have committed my way to the Lord, I don’t write anything that would offend him. Or at least, I don’t think that I do.

In all honesty, I don’t feel that I need to change my life, but if I do, God will show me how. I’m not certain how. He could use some sort of natural circumstance like an earthquake, or he could just use the Spirit to subtly coax me into changing.

Whatever the case, I am going to live my life, and I’m not going to change it whenever my boss walks into the room. My boss is always in the room, and He’s more than welcome to slap work on my desk. The best thing about working for him is that he doesn’t fire, I will have to quit.

So how should we live? Let’s put it this way: life is an infinite set of numbers. And there only certain numbers divisible by sin that I cannot touch. It is still an infinite set that I can, and that gives me a sense of great freedom.