For some Odd reason... I was just bored, bored, bored. And a friend of mine, whom I agree with, says, "Only boring people are bored". But I couldn't shake it. I even got a space heater for my room, and a steam cleaner for various tasks, and hung out with my friends. Still bored.
Anyways, I think the major problem with boredom... is the fixation with the self. It is like a bad feedback loop of, "I am not totally in it... I want to get into it... but I don't want to take the effort to get there... me... me... me...". And my other friend, whom I also agree with, said that, "Boredom is so easily found in our 'Instant Gratification Generation'". BRILLIANT! We so often want everything now, and can't wait for it, or work for it. If there isn't something there to quench our shifting attention span, we are kinda lost in the desert.
Which brings me to my verse for the week, "I am the way the truth and the life, no one gets to the Father except through me". The speaker from the Youth Rally talked about the fact that we take God-centered scripture, and make it us centered (which may be why we can get so bored with scripture and church). Making "Get to the father" us centered sounds like... "Get to paradise" or "avoid Hell". But God centered sounds like: "Honor the Father" or "Glorify and magnify the Father". If we can't even approach God, we can't honor him. So, Jesus made a way for God to be approached so that we may do what we were created to do... Worship Him who made us and loves us, and is good beyond all things :)
That's my Friday thoughts.
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