[OBW]

I think this all comes down to someone providing and answer to a problem that sounds spiritual. And it would be really nice if it were true.

I keep thinking of Charlie Brown wondering why he never wins a baseball game. "But we're so sincere." In this case, it just sounds so spiritual.

And it keeps underpinning something that I first saw in myself, then in a lot of us who come to these forums. We don't want the LRC. But there is something in us that is seeking for something superior. And that is the reason that we got caught in the LRC and the reason that we are prone to getting stuck in other such things. We aren't satisfied with "very good." We want it all. (Think of that little girl in Willy Wonka singing something like "I want it all," and "I want it now.")

Those who seek "God's best" as an alternative to the community of faith that is around them will be rewarded with the smoke and mirrors of one charlatan after another. We are still stuck with despising our brothers. So they are too poor, or unspiritual, or worldly . . . .

We want to feel good. But we were never promised to feel good. Or have lots of outward blessings. Or even good teeth. We were promised struggles and hardships.

We were not asked to be spiritual, but to be righteous. But we despise "works" and seek after a better worship experience (be it a throwback to "traditional" or the latest thing), or better teachings.

We despise ourselves for not being willing to go to Mongolia to preach the gospel, but think it nothing to continue to act like heathen right here at home. In other words, we all think that only 10-talent servants can "make it" and continue to despise our one-talent task of hungering and thirsting for righteousness (and living that righteousness).

For myself, not for everyone else. If I cannot live it, who am I kidding to be arguing about how unrighteous the unsaved in my country are? Or even the Christian sitting next to me at church?