Friday, June 13, 2014

Godly Disillusionment

Godly Disillusionment
It was he (God) who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
Ephesians 4:11-13 NIV
I think that many of us have an idea in our minds of what Christianity should be like. We fantasize about the aspects of the "right church", about a "better" theology and the way we think God's people should be. Some of us church-hop to find this ideal church or worse, try to force our point of view on the church we are attending. I also think that many of us sometimes experience a level of frustration because our idea of Christianity (and sometimes our idea of God himself) seems to never materialize. Is following God what you thought it would be?
Maybe we are unable to find our ideal church and maybe God seems to fail us because we are experiencing ‘Godly Disillusionment’. Maybe God is allowing frustration to set in, to shake us out of wishful ideology that does not benefit His Kingdom? Maybe God is shaking us out of ideas that are not consistent with scripture? If this is true, then it shows us the kindness and wisdom of God. He is so kind that He will not allow us to find comfort in a lie, in a dream or in wishful thinking. God is a God of truth (John 14:6). And anything less than the truth is not good enough for the ones that He loves.
I think that the unity of believers isn't a sense of being the same, looking the same or acting the same. I think the unity of believers is that we are finally working for the same goal, to glorify God, to experience His nearness and His love and finally to tell someone about Him. We bring glory to God by testifying about Him to all others that we come in contact with. We bring glory to God when we love and commit to each other. We bring glory to God when we remember that Christ will always be with us (Mark 28:18-20). Could be that these things remove us from disillusionment and into the whole measure of fullness in Christ.

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