Things That I Wonder About

 There are things that make me wonder. I used to wonder what is wrong with me. But as I get older I have changed my focus and now I wonder what is wrong with them? Why do people act the way that they do? Why do people do the things that they do? Why do people say what they say and feel what they feel?

I wonder how a person can be saved for many years and they still talk and act like they just got saved yesterday? They talk zealously. They always have God on their minds. They do not do what they talk about any more but that does not seem to change the way that they talk. Pastor Wayman Mitchell used to call this mental gymnastics; feeling good about ourselves even though we are not doing what we say we ought to do.

I wonder how can a person be married to another person for years and then show no signs of grief or mourning when that person dies? Grieving is proof that you loved someone. The depth of your grief is tied to the depth of your love. Christians are not exempt from grieving. But in our Fellowship you would think that mourning the death of your spouse was a sin. Show me someone who shows no signs of grief in death and I question whether they ever really loved in life.

I wonder about the eternal optimists among us. They always see the sunny side of life. They cannot process the possibility that life has trouble like the sparks that fly upward. They always believe that the terminally ill person will get better through prayer. They refuse to see life as it is and see life through rose colored glasses. As pastor Mitchell has said, God will not let you win all of the time. Life events are how God keeps us dependent on Christ.

I wonder about other things as well. But this is enough for now.