"Or Ungoverned"

"Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among people." (Psalms 44:14) I know that this might not make any sense, but sometimes breaking something is what is required to fix it. You see it all the time in business, where someone takes over a failing business, tears it down to size, and then builds it up fresh again; and you see it all the time in failing lives. But in the case with God, when He takes over our life there is something that is generated within us, besides the peace which passes all understanding, there is hope that goes beyond any kind of hope we could have in earthly help or resources. Our hope is in God, where there is no failing, where there is no chance or doubt He can not get things done. I sometimes wonder if we are meant to live this way, having all of this technology, entertainment and luxury; or should we be living more simple lives, lives that are more centered around relationships and depending upon each other for the way we communicate and express emotions. Don't get me wrong, if you know me, then you know how much I love movies; I watch a movie almost every night, sometimes the same movie over and over again. But it, like most other things that are entertaining, helps us cover up a little bit of reality, if not just for the few hours that we are entertained, and then it's right back to life, as messy as life sometimes can be. Was there any point to what I just said? I don't really know; but if we are truly governed by God, then no matter how messy our lives might appear, they are His mess. I can take great comfort in knowing that, because without God this messed up life would be unbearable; yet God can take every messed up thing in my life and use it for good; He can turn the most horrific and catastrophic event into something that transforms a life. So in that regard, it really does not matter what the heathen say, or how much they shake their heads at the calamity we might be experiencing in our lives, because it is God doing something within us; and if we can't see it, then those that are outside sure as heck are not going to see it. But isn't that what hope is all about? 

"But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine upon them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body." (2 Corinthians 4:3-10)