Embrace truth; embrace love.

Where do you go when all things fall apart, Christians? We hold the keys, the Savior, but we do not always know how to turn the lock. We are frustrated by the circumstances. We are distracted. We slip up and make a mistake, a sin. We forget our inheritance and call ourselves bad people for it. That’s what the Bible says anyway, right?* We curse the lock for causing us to sin. We are frustrated that the lock does not open itself. We ask all the wrong questions. We forsake. We get the idea “I just gotta do something, be proactive”. We try and fail. We don’t know where to take the next step. We are fearful of where our feet may fall.

It’s all a process, you see. These are the stumbling blocks: Christian kryptonite. These, and many, many more. There’s a reason that Christians are called sheep. It’s not that we are not as smart as any other people about worldly things, it’s that we have to learn spiritual things—things we cannot learn alone. We have to learn to use senses and abilities we didn’t know we had (that non-Christians for the most part don’t know they have). We are sheep because we can only learn them by following the master. And we often only find that answer if we stick together because we are so easily distracted. I guess that makes non-believers goats because they are stubbornly independent. They are smart, but defiant. What’s funny is they often don’t know that they know some of the truths of Christianity already (if you don’t believe me, look at the moral of many a secular movie, book or song). They know things of Heaven (love, beauty, youth, wonder), but they do not know they are not Heaven itself. But when it comes to the end of the day, the sheep are in the fold; and the goat is still kicking and biting… obstinate, believing he would be cheated out of his freedom if he would submit to the master and thus refuses his care.

*This is a rhetorical question.