Chesterton in a God-drenched world

If we would see God everywhere in our God-drenched world we must aggressively resist our culture’s boredom with all things Christian. (yesterday’s blog) GK Chesterton writing 100 years ago from a ‘bored with all things Christian’ British culture, warned, ‘The worst judge of all is the man now most ready with his judgments; the ill-educated Christian turning gradually into the ill-tempered agnostic, entangled in the end of a feud of which he never understood the beginning, blighted with a sort of hereditary boredom with he knows not what, and already weary of hearing what he has never heard.’  (“The Everlasting Man”) 
 
Chesterton goes on to say that we’ve come to admire anything but what is distinctly Christian. (Like Islamic culture in Senegal - again yesterday's blog)  But the fault does not lie in dynamic Biblical theology! Fallen man has given in to the ‘heavy bias of fatigue’ with what is familiar.  But our gospel is the power of God for salvation - to make things new! Our God himself gives everyone life & breath & everything else. He is not far from any one of us, for in Him we live & move & have our being. So reach out for Him & find Him. (Acts 17) Let’s discover, trust and celebrate our Lord at every opportunity!   

How surprised early believers might be, Chesterton suggests, to see The Church, ‘two thousand years afterwards rushing through the ages as the winged thunderbolt of thought and everlasting enthusiasm; a thing without rival or resemblance; and still as new as it is old.’