sus·tain·a·ble
/səˈstānəb(ə)l/
1.
able to be maintained at a certain rate or level.
"sustainable fusion reactions"
2.
able to be upheld or defended.
"sustainable definitions of good educational practice"
This is the "in" word for this season. It seems to be what they all talk about. Environmentalists and politicians alike seem to camp at "sustainability".
Makes me think about our new brand of feel good, all's good Christianity. Is it sustainable? With all the advances in technology and yet, the human proximity so far, is this non-committal, uninvolved faith sustainable?
Paul wrote about it when he said that he wants to come in the power of God and not in words only, so that their faith would be in God. Have we, the leaders of today's Church(global), created personality cults at the expense of authentic faith?
I wonder how many of our disciples could recognize the voice of God? How many can stand on their own two feet in faith?
At the same time I see the depression in the young and the weariness in the true disciple makers. Lord help us! How will this endure? How will Your Church stand?
Maybe there is a price to be paid for authentic, sustainable faith. Maybe it will cost some personal comfort and entertainment, maybe even fasting. How can we not pay such a mild token of a price when our brothers and sisters in North Africa and the Orient pay with blood? How shamefull our grotesque, characiture of faith we embrace in the West.
O God, revive us again to authentic, genuine faith. Cleans our hearts from psychotic love of self and ease. Deliver us from apathy and impassion. How will we bring glory to Your name in this state of shame?
