What exactly does the perfect life look like? How can it be described in tangible words? Does it tickle the senses? Is there taste…smell…touch to it? Or is it simply a whisper on the wind? I hear this life sold to us from all angles…culture says that it is found in your bank account, relationships, vehicles, and stock options. And yet there are countless stories of celebrities,from Brittany Spears to David Hasselhoff, who have captured the proverbial “American Dream”. They have the fame, the money, the life…and yet their lives are a webbed mess of unrequited love, unfulfilled dreams, and a total lack of LIFE…
There is a much darker side to this equation, and it comes from many of America’s pulpits, espousing the same message, with a little God sprinkled in for flavor. All you have to do is sew an x amount of dollars seed into their “ministry” and you can have what they have…just ask, because God is your genie in a lamp…rub right…pray right…and He pops out, ready to serve…
The “perfect” life is not wrapped in green backs, short skirts, fast cars, or tall…dark…and handsome.
The perfect life is promised and comes soley from the ONE who can promise it…it gives everything and takes nothing…it is unconditional in a world wrought with conditions…and at the end of it all, it never really ends…He came to give it…cultures definition tries to steal it…and pulpits try to manufacture it…but there is only one place to find it…LIFE, perfected and overwhelming…free and unfettered is found in Jesus…follow close…
