We may plan for tomorrow, but we all know deep down it may not be ours, and while that uncertainty unsettles us, it should ultimately humble us. “What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time, and then vanishes.” (James 4:14). Therefore we ought to realise any strength or enablement to do what we do must come from a higher source – the Almighty God.

It should also bring to our attention the zero-hour decision we are all faced with – crossing the red line so to speak, and sealing our eternal destiny by our ultimate choice. Summed up by Pascal’s wager: What if it’s all true: the Bible, the prophets, the evangelists? What if He does return, meaning He was once here, and everything written about Him (and us) is also true? What choice now will ensure we have no regrets if that eventuates?

I don’t know who killed nuance (though I suspect it was a team effort), but flattening the complexity of existence and truth does no one any favours (except those who benefit from whatever version of reality is offered up). Platitudes sound nice, but what is even better is the (sometimes bitter) truth that compels us to acknowledge the contradictions we’re living in (the same contradictions we created), and face them as gracefully as possible.

I just wish I lived in a more honest society, one that didn’t hide behind all this posturing, and laid bare the ugly.

And that’s all I’m going to say.

Our problems are many,

Yet the solutions radiate from one Being.

He wraps Himself in light,

And dwells in inapproachable glory.

We’ve long known the solution – Love thy neighbour,

But the heart resists when it is time to act

Complaints rise, yet love doesn’t flow

So how do you expect there to be any real change?

Maybe you don’t truly value righteousness,

Maybe the purity of innocence doesn’t draw you as you claim

Because if it did, as much as money, attention or influence,

You’d sacrifice those very things to pursue Him

The path of deep love is often quiet,

And as long as it continues to be ‘their problem’

And not ours,

The world will continue to be the same.

*I claim no ownership of these words – they are the Holy Spirit’s flowing through me; I am just a conduit