I will now digress. After my last post speaking to our power "in Christ", I will address the other side of the coin...and I will begin by sighting the unintentional "wisdom" found in the lyrics of the classic drug song, from my younger days, Comfortably Numb, by Pink Floyd. Here is the excerpt I am referring to:
Comfortably Numb (Waters) (Pink Floyd)
"Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown,
The dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb."
Even in their mixed-up way, I believe Pink Floyd struck a chord of unintentional wisdom and an insight into what can possibly happen to all of us. If we are not careful, we can get comfortable. Comfortable with life, comfortable with our present state, comfortable with the status quo, comfortable with just how much we, as Christians, will allow God into our lives and how much we will allow our ears to hear. Then, before we know it...we become numb to the point of hearing anything at all from God. His lips move, but we can't hear what He's saying. Numb to His direction, His leading, guiding, and His possibility of being able to use us at all.
I think it can happen to any of us, but I believe it quite possibly could be more prone to happening to those of us who do not daily give Him permission to...once again, take up residence in our being. We allow Him to communicate with us to the point where we hear His lips telling us what He wants of us at any given moment on any given day. To be at a place where we are obedient and disciplined enough to realize how quick we can become comfortable and numb again, if indeed we fail to spend that needed time and communicate with Him as often as we should.
Back to Pink Floyd's drug song. They surprise us again with another nugget of truth and unintentional wisdom in the lyrics, "When I was a child...". As a Christian, if we read the words, "when I was a child", most of us immediately think of the passage of scripture in 1 Corinthians 13:11, that reads, "When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me." The real truth of this passage of scripture is encouraging us to be mature in Christ and our relationship to Him and not to become numb in our inability to hear his still small voice that allows us to grow in Him, to respond to His call, ...and for our relationship to mature to a point of hearing and then doing His will, whatever it may be.
As a child of God, he wants us to never get comfortable in our current state...to never become numb to the point of not being able to hear from Him, to be refreshed by Him, to be motivated by Him, and to let him fill us with his hope, his inspiration that can allow our dreams for a life in Christ to be fulfilled.
Once again, music can speak volumes, and as much as I would like to share Pink Floyd's music with you, I think I will stick with the positive note and share this one from Brandon Heath.
May God Bless,
Chuck
Don't Get Comfortable - Brandon Heath
