You probably think I’m really “milking” this “Occupy” movement, but it is so loaded with analogies, I can’t help myself. Yesterday, writing about the apparent dementia that affects the rank and file of Bible believing Christians, I quoted Hebrews 2:1, "We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we [our thoughts] do not drift away.”
Significantly, the Greek word translated "pay attention" means "to turn the mind to or to occupy oneself with a thing or thought." The believers to whom the author was writing had heard the gospel, but didn’t occupy themselves with their new-found faith; they were in danger of drifting away, or, in my words, “losing their minds.”
Though the various cities around the country are attempting to evict “occupiers” from the spaces they occupy, those in occupation of them are holding fast. This reminds me of another warning by the author of Hebrews, “We are God’s house [people] IF we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end” (3:6), implying that it may be harder to “hold fast” as we approach the “end.” Even Jesus said, “Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have” (Rev. 3:11).
You know Greg? I think part of not paying attention and eventually drift away is due to the fact that we do not find our satisfaction in God. It seems like even though we say we have God and see ourselves as Christians, there are areas where we are still unsatisfied and instead of believing that God is enough, and run into His arms so that He can abundantly supply and overflow our empty places with Himself, we look for entertainment, distractions or other things that afford us with a certain momentaneous relief, and we keep running to it. The thing is that we don't realize that that illusionary source of satisfaction is quenching our thirst for the only True Fountain of Life, the Person of God Himself.
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