Too Much World…

You know, it’s too easy to become caught-up in the world’s things. Oh that I would not be as the one who looks back at the plow. It is not that I do in regards faith, for without trusting Christ I’d have no hope, and I believe: I know now how not to believe God’s promises, but I will admit too that I am often forgetful.

There is so much of interest in the world, problems to solve, issues to discourse, but they are also easy distractions, and it is often these days that they are even unaccessible to most, who are upon the periphery of conversations and things in which they are not included, rather only watching, hearing, examining, judging, but in which they really have no part.

And furthermore, why are we so interested? With hyperparticipation through millions of critics, there is little room for true discourse, for thinking. It is for good reason the congress has limits to size, or is intended to have, for the purpose that real debate might occur, though in reality no real critical engagement seems to ever grace that floor anymore: especially with the ruling party, notorious for its hatred of criticism and examination.

Yet it’s no help that one party or the other rules at a time, nor that when they are equally empowered there is more dogmatism and ideals than reason. The same situation is pervasive, however, throughout, it appears, in all reaches of our society. In every discipline, in every sect of modern civil life, throughout America, and perhaps also throughout Europe where the ability of speech is now feared lost.

So why, oh why, are we even piqued to want to discourse in an uncritical society? Why care with so many uninteracting opinions unconsidered and speaking as if mere blurbing is desired so as to somehow matter, though it is likely insignificant?

The real point, though, is that it is too easy to be distracted with the things of this world, and I must admit I need mortify my own, incessant, wand’ring interest, and keep it foremost on heavenly things.