What if you....?

Stop a moment and think about what is going on around you; your family, your church, your work, and your activities. Are you like many, with all these things pulling you in so many different directions that you are out of control, or at least seem to be? Do you long for sanity? Do the little things irritate you? Do the big things overwhelm you? Does it seem that the world as a whole is moving at a fast pace down the wrong road? Do you feel helpless to stop it?

Recently, I posed the title of this blog as a question on my facebook page. I got several answers differing in seriousness and that is OK. I didn't quantify what the response should be. I wanted to know what a person or persons were thinking at that moment. Not scientific, I was just curious. What are your answers to the questions posed above or the to the title of this blog?

There is an uncountable number of steps that you take in an effort to answer the question, what if you...?. Some would actually be an answer while others would just mask you situation until later and then you would have to deal with your problems.

Life is full of questions, heartache, and joy. So, as one respondent put it; "What if you had as your primary concern the kingdom of God and what He requires of you?" Would all this go away? No, but I believe that all the loneliness, anxiety, rejection, anger and feelings of despair are easier to handle and get through.

I have always said that the hymns of old are so inspired from God as the authors and composers walked through there own times of questions, so I leave you with the lyrics of this one:

O the deep deep love of Jesus, vast unmeasured boundless free!
Rolling as a mighty ocean, in it's fullness over me.
Underneath me, all around me, is the current of Thy love;
Leading onward, leading homeward, to my glorious rest above.

O, the deep deep love of Jesus, spread His praise from shore to shore
How He loveth, ever loveth, changeth never, never more.
How He watches o'er His loved ones, died to call them all His own;
How for thee He intercedeth, watcheth o'er them form the throne!

O, the deep deep love of Jesus, love of every love the best!
'Tis an ocean vast of blessing, 'Tis a haven sweet of rest.
O, the deep deep love of Jesus, 'Tis a heav'n of heav'ns to me;
And it lifts me up to glory, for it lifts me up to Thee.