Musings....

As I sit in a faux Viennese cafe decorated as if Schubert or Stauss could be at the next table (in the airport) with a mix of other travelers from around the world I am amazed at and reminded of the diversity the Lord has created in the creatures. All of us who He has made in his own image. There are the Business Men on the way to meet a client putting the finishing touches on their presentation; there are the International Aid Workers some returning from a time of R&R, others on their way for the first time to the hard places they work, a part of the world that has been just been destroyed by a natural disaster or where war and abuse continues to rage; there are the Holiday Makers and the Biker Guy with a Mohawk; there is a family of immigrants fleeing the poverty of their land looking for a better life in a new place full of shiny things and a strange language; and there is me. We are all the same and all very different. We are the same in our sin, in our need for a saviour. Prov. 21:2 says, that every way of a man is right in his own eyes. The author of that verse is not saying every way is correct but that each man thinks he is correct. It is the one who weighs the heart who can say what is truly right and that is the Lord. This cafe is filled with people thinking they are doing right, and many of them probably are, but its the ultimate right that God cares about, not what we think is right in our own, finite little minds. It is the right of Him who established the measure of rightness that He cares about. Am I doing that right thing? Is my life exemplefying His righteousness? I pray it is and I pray for those that sit here with me that they will come to know that truth as well. Well my flight has finally been called, I am off to one of those war torn places, thankfully now at peace, but far from being a land filled with the eternal peace. Perhaps one day...