Amen. The race Paul names is not a sprint toward resolution, nor a demand that life arrive somewhere legible. To abide, remain, endure, and be faithful is not passive delay. It is resistance to the lie that meaning must culminate.
Scripture does not call us to finish ourselves, but to be kept until death completes us or the Day dawns. This is quiet mercy: not winning, not optimizing, not escaping the limits of our days, but standing within them under Christ’s keeping.
Faithfulness is not the arc. Faithfulness is the ground.
I am continuously thankful that when you lay out problems such "purpose" or being a man in this "modern age", that I find myself thinking that's how I feel. Only, I didn't have the words or thoughts to understand what was going on.
Yes. That constant demand for alignment is a hidden tax.
When every act must justify itself against an internal values ledger, the work is no longer work; it becomes a referendum on YOU. That pressure is not moral sensitivity. It is abstraction and accusation masquerading as virtue.
Responding to what is broken returns weight to the world where it belongs. Burden grounds action outside the ego. It does not ask who you are becoming; it asks what cross God has given. The Cross is good! And in that renewal of the mind, from self-evaluation to given responsibility, life is lighter, not because it is easier, but because it is real.
Amen. Paul does instruct us to finish the race which beautifully ties into your point that we abide, remain, walk, endure, watch, be faithful.
Amen. The race Paul names is not a sprint toward resolution, nor a demand that life arrive somewhere legible. To abide, remain, endure, and be faithful is not passive delay. It is resistance to the lie that meaning must culminate.
Scripture does not call us to finish ourselves, but to be kept until death completes us or the Day dawns. This is quiet mercy: not winning, not optimizing, not escaping the limits of our days, but standing within them under Christ’s keeping.
Faithfulness is not the arc. Faithfulness is the ground.
All things are done through God. God's peace and love be with you all. Amen.
I am continuously thankful that when you lay out problems such "purpose" or being a man in this "modern age", that I find myself thinking that's how I feel. Only, I didn't have the words or thoughts to understand what was going on.
Yes. That constant demand for alignment is a hidden tax.
When every act must justify itself against an internal values ledger, the work is no longer work; it becomes a referendum on YOU. That pressure is not moral sensitivity. It is abstraction and accusation masquerading as virtue.
Responding to what is broken returns weight to the world where it belongs. Burden grounds action outside the ego. It does not ask who you are becoming; it asks what cross God has given. The Cross is good! And in that renewal of the mind, from self-evaluation to given responsibility, life is lighter, not because it is easier, but because it is real.