No other love risked more awkwardness than Christ’s.
?Can you imagine God becoming man? ?How awkward is that? Not only must it have been awkward for God to put on human flesh, but think how awkward it must have been for Him throughout his life.
· I wonder what He felt when He went to His dad’s funeral knowing He had raised others from the dead.
· I often wonder what He felt or thought when He went to the Synagogue and listened to the Rabbi’s trying to "explain the Bible".......you know....the One He wrote.
· How did He feel when He became a victim of the very people that He created... talk about awkward.
· How awkward it must have been to be teaching love to a society that was built on brutality.
His love teaches us that we will also have to risk awkwardness in our relationships with others. Sometimes a relationship will require a major overhaul or more personal attention. It may need propped up with a pinch of love, or maintained with a splash of encouragement, it may need forgiveness received or pardon given. The virtues that are needed in life situations can make you feel very awkward. There is a risk when we step out like that. Every relational breakthrough that I have ever had in my life included the risk of awkwardness to bring about the desired results. Awkward comes in many ways, bashful, uncomfortable, unsure, risking looking silly, having to take the first step and apologize, etc.
Risking awkwardness isn’t something you can do on Facebook or Twitter. You can’t bring healing over the internet, or put your hand on someone's shoulder through email. You can be an acquaintance, but not a true blue friend, that comes from personal face-to-face relationships. You can’t have ‘through thick or thin loyalty', twittering. It is not possible to abate loneliness on a social network through electronic mail.
To create relationships that are built on love, and to have a 'Love That Lasts’ you have to be personal, be there, not be a number, not an e-address.
Today I am going to ask you to take my ‘LOVE THAT LASTS CHALLENGE’ and participate in a "Facebook Fast". [Don't do Facebook? It also applies to computer/TV/Sports overload/Anything time stealing.
I’m not bashing Facebook. I use it, I blog once a week, I email and I text frequently. Social media is great so long as it doesn’t become a substitute for really connecting in a deep and personal way with people.
In fact, I want to spread the 'Facebook Fast' to all my facebook friends.
One day a week I would like you to fast from chatting or gaming on facebook (or any of the above mentioned "time stealers") to get face to face with a friend, spouse, a someone or a loved one. It may be having coffee or lunch with them, sitting down and writing a letter, card or making a personal call; maybe its someone hurting and just waiting for someone - you - to strike up a friendship with them. Take the time that you are abstaining during your 'facebook fast' and put a real live person in its place.......?Starting today and ending on Thursday, January 5th, would you join the 'LOVE THAT LASTS, FACEBOOK CHALLENGE', with all of us here at The SUB. Let's start a relational revolution!
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