Great Minds Occupied On Little Things

I was having a discussion with my accountability group, and the subject turned to the matter of what was preoccupying our minds and inhabiting our thoughts the majority of the time. We all spoke of what we were concerning with, worried about, and thoughtful of. When it came to my turn to speak, I told the group of men about the thing(s) that had been occupying my thoughts of late - thoughts of God and of theology, of religion and the difference between Christianity and other religions, that is to say, love. 

     

One of the men in my group then told me that, had he not known me as well as he did, he would not have believed me when I told him that I thought about God in my free time. While I deeply appreciate his honesty, and even more so his concern with my spiritual state, I can't help but feel saddened that thinking often about God has become something that is so rare that people don't believe you when you tell them that you are preoccupied with thoughts about God. 

   

  God created us with a supercomputer in our heads - something that can do anything from complex equations to figuring out how to change the oil in your car; you can create a beautiful work of art, and then turn around and set the table, simply because God gave you a mind that can both complete simple tasks and also consider complex and abstract ideas. The human mind has more capability than the greatest computers that we have created (using our minds). Why then, are we so preoccupied with unimportant, irrelevant issues?

     

What should I wear? What should we have for lunch? Who will I date? When will the world end? What style of music should we play in church? We become so consumed by irrelevant things that have no real importance to your life (meaning your eternal life), that we lose sight of the bigger picture. We get so concerned about the world that we forget about the Kingdom. We get so worried about tomorrow that we forget about today. We wake up ten years later and wonder how we got to be the apathetic, stale Christian that we are. 

    

 As a person who hates to waste time, I simply don't understand how people can take the precious time that they've been given and use it thinking about unimportant things - things that we should really put into God's hands, or that shouldn't be put into anyone's hands at all! 

We spend our time pondering questions that have objective answers - simple, universal answers that give us a direct instruction - and we try and label them with a subjective answer, where we say "I'll wear clothes that honor Christ, but what color and style should they be?" or "I know Martha has a deep relationship with Christ, but Mary says she's a Christian, and God made me more attracted to Blondes than Brunettes, so I'll date Mary."

My goodness, why are we concerned about those issues when there is the issue of starving kids in Africa who need care; homeless people in your hometown who need prayer. How can we be so concerned about the little things and miss the huge issues in our lives? Why are there Christians who graduate high school but don't know the books of the Bible? Why are there people that ask for a pastor while they are on their deathbed, because none of us went and talked to them beforehand? 

Why do we miss out on all the opportunities that God has placed before us? 

In the end, it is because we would rather spend our hours watching t.v., playing games, and shopping rather than sitting down and meditating on the Bible. We would rather think about nothing than think about the Everything. 

What would happen if we all spent a little time thinking about God in our everyday lives? (On some day other than Sunday)