Soul Fix v. 1.0. The Only One Ever Needed. Do Not Try Anything Else.

Here is the bulletin article I wrote this week. I know I have been sparse in the blogging lately, but I have been working on a couple of other projects. I don't know why I feel the need to have to post weekly, but anyways. This is one of those cases where I sat down, had no idea what I was going to write, had an idea pop into my head, and this is where it ended up. I think I write better that way.

Soul Technology
I heard a quote this week that went something like, “It does not take long for wants to become nessecities.” If you think of the inventions over the last century, and particularly the last 40 years how true this has been.

I do remember having to get up to change the TV, and having to take my turn doing all the dishes by hand, and even using a phone with a cord on it. My mom can remember having no TV, and having to use the outhouse for the bathroom. I remember having to hang clothes to air dry. She can remember having to wash them by hand as well. She also remembers having to walk to school 20 miles in the snow uphill both ways. (okay, no hills, she grew up in Nebraska, and it was more like two miles.) I remember what a chore I thought it was to have to walk or ride my bike one half mile to school. But we feel like can’t possibly live without the remote or cell phone, washer and dryer, etc.

What have these “needs” done for us? Nothing, really. With all the changes over the last century, humanity has changed so little. With everything that was supposed to make life so much easier, it hasn’t gotten any better. Instead it seems we work ourselves to death to afford what is going to make our lives so much easier. There has been nothing invented that will fix the soul and make life less sinful. And the more we try to find our salvation, or our “soul fix” in anything of this world, we will only accomplish more misery for ourselves.

God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. His gospel is as unchanged as the day Peter delivered it around 2000 years ago. Christ died for our sins, was buried, and rose again to conquer death. He adopts us as His children, and we give our lives to Him in obedience. That is the only “soul fix.” This is the deep longing and need of this world. This is the only innovation that is truly life changing.

Until we find fulfillment for what our souls so deeply long for, no amount of needed wants will bring any kind of consolation. All we find instead is one more expense, one more distraction, one more frustration, one more empty promise and one more hurting soul.

Jesus is soul technology. Will you download Him into your heart? It will change your life.

Well there you have it. Hopefully I will start posting much more in the near future. It is good for me at least. Part of the difficulty is those voices of inner-rejection have come back recently, like "well that was stupid" or "you're gonna mess that up." which means I start thinking that I don't have much to offer. But I know it is a lie of Satan. And it is no coincedence that it comes with avengence as I start a new youth ministry. The good side is that means I must be dangerous to his agenda. But that is a whole other post.