Bubbles and Questions and Divisions

I was reading a guys blog who was talking about the "bubble" we often get stuck in in life, and the balance of living outside that bubble but keeping from going off in the wrong direction. Then I've been reading ch.10 of Pursuit of God by Tozer over and over just soaking it all in. It got me started thinking about some things I'd been meaning to write for a bit and I'm finally going to write it down like I've been meaning to.

Have you ever seen the commercial on TV where the people jump from one bubble to another, each bubble playing a different song? I think that's been me a lot. There have been separate bubbles for the way I talk, another for my actions, one for being with my friends, another for my parents, and so on. I've been thinking about my faith, about my Savior. I don't ever want to be ashamed or too distracted to live Christ' ways or to speak his name. I've been thinking about how so often the things in my heart, word, and deed are so different. Tozer calls this the 'sacred-secular antithesis.' We so often divide our lives into different areas, some we consider 'sacred' good things like church or singing a certain hymn, and others we consider 'secular' and are frustrated yet very drawn too like eating or movies etc. It's a difficult balance, I find myself constantly in situations where I wonder what I'm suposed to do and be. It's hard to know when to preach with words or deeds. It's difficult to feel as if you're a Christian when you often end up in places that contrast church or a religious place. Sometimes it's easy to feel as if you have to either be this wet blanket depressing 'christian' or else the wild little sinner. And both leave you dissapointed.

This has been on my heart and mind for a while. And after questions and pondering I've come to a realization, but I'd rather just share those questions and thoughts right now. I hope you'll find what I did.



What if my words were the same as my actions, and my actions reflected by my words?

What if my heart compelled every action I do and word that I spoke?

What if nothing in my life were separated by bubbles, if there were no separation between my actions, my words, my thoughts, my heart?

What if it's not even about my words, deeds, or heart?

What if my self were gone, and only the image of Love remained?

What if everything I am were surrendered and captivated in Love?



I don't want to live this life in a bunch of different bubbles or even just one bubble, asking a bunch of questions, but never having the guts to break out of those bubbles and live the answers out.

God is God wherever we are, when ever etc. And His Spirit is alive in us.

....let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith... Hebrews 12:1-2