It Must Be Me

There is something about wanting to be able to be sure of something that drives most of our human behavior. In our infancy, that something, at least for most, is the unfailing love and attention of our mother and, hopefully our father. Somehow we know, even at an early age that everything will be alright because Mom and Dad care more about our welfare than their own. Only as we get a little older do we become a little less sure of their benevolence because they insist that we cannot do some of the things we want to when we want to. At that point, we begin consciously or unconsciously to look elsewhere for that thing about which we can be sure.

Sometimes that thing in which we begin to trust is friends and acquaintances with all the attending problems associated with peer pressure. So we continue to search for heroes, folks who have been exemplary in how they have conducted their lives. We may even acknowledge that our parents  pretty well fit that pattern. But it's too late for that since we already decided we could do better outside of their influence. We learn of great people in history, glamorized as they are in history books and think for awhile that people like those first Americans who framed our Constitution surely can be trusted as something in which we can be sure.

Fast forward to the present in which we still hope for something that we can be sure is true. Our present situation in this country, in fact in this world, seems pretty bleak in that heroes have been hard to come by. Those we have elected hoping that they might have concern for the common good either overlook, or downright refute, that responsibility. So we still want to believe there is something of which we can be sure.

Some days I think it must be me that is fouled up because everything that I thought was surely true has somehow turned out to be otherwise. Then I remember. There was One who came into the world to exemplify the sure truth. He even dared say, "I am the way and the truth." I hope that any who might read this and get feeling as though the truth is getting difficult to find will turn their attention to Christ whose birth we will soon celebrate. Take Him up on His promise of eternal life, be born again and realize that there is truth and life beyond the confusion and disappointment this world often offers. May the blessings of a loving God sustain you and give you peace in a less than peaceful world.