Land Of Confusion

Quite some time, a made a decision to leave my radio off while at work (having a job where I could have the radio blasting all day and nobody would care) And by quite sometime, I think it might be like a year and half... which for a music lover, is a long time.

About a week or two ago, while talking with my friend, we were discussing life and he suggested, I needed to get out of my head. Perhaps, I should consider turning the radio back on. K-Love or Smile.FM.  Something Christian and positive to get some encouragement and spiritual uplifting rather than my mind running 100mph in 10 different directions.

Though nobody plays the great Classic Christian Rock I'm used to having, I did get hooked on a couple of "new" bands and one station played the latest from Michael W. Smith! However, in my channel surfing yesterday, a secular station played Land of Confusion, by Genesis. I like Phil Collins' music, if for no other reason there is something definitely 80's about his music. Perhaps it's all his appearances on the classic television series, Miami Vice.

But catch the chorus on this...

There's too many men // Too many people
Making too many problems // And not much love to go round
Can't you see // This is a land of confusion.

This is the world we live in // And these are the hands we're given
Use them and let's start trying // To make it a place worth living in.

This is the time // This is the place
So we look for the future // But there's not much love to go round
Tell me why, this is a land of confusion.


Now this is the world we live in // And these are the hands we're given
Use them and let's start trying // To make it a place worth fighting for.

This is the world we live in // And these are the names we're given
Stand up and let's start showing  // Just where our lives are going to.

How incredibly profound. Not much has changed from 1986, has it?

Still too many people making too many problems.
Still not enough love to go around.
Indeed, this world is more confusing and confused now than it was 30 years ago! (I feel old just being able to say that)
This is our reality.
And yet in many ways, we've failed to show up and show where are lives are going.

As we engage the community, may this be the heart of the church. We have these hands and the earth is His and all the people in it. They are worth fighting for, for eternity hangs in the balance. We go to all kinds of specialists, in every arena and area of life and circumstance to make things right, yet, as the DJ stated yesterday, where do people turn to heal a broken soul?

That is the part of life that matters, Phil, just where our lives are going to.

So join with me and pray, this #communitySaturday. May the people of God stand up and show, our lives in light of eternity and the sovereign plan of God that none should perish, but all come to repentance. May we impact the world we live in with the love of God and the Gospel of Christ. May our names reflect the work of Christ in our lives, as he has healed our soul's broken condition. May the church be among those who do not create problems, but offer solutions; indeed the only solution that matters. For Christ is the answer to the question posed at the beginning of time.

What if all creation goes awry?
Christ is not plan B.
In this land of confusion, He is... all there is.
Thanks be unto God.

- PNC