I ended up my previous post talking about spiritual starvation.
I believe there are huge numbers of people these days that are starving spiritually, inside and outside of churches. Our modern religious activities are completely inadequate to the task of solving the problem of spiritual starvation.
This starvation I believe, is the main motivator for the lust for power and greed. It fuels many vices (forbidden fruit), including physical overeating, porn addiction, shopping addiction, etc. It is a desire to feed one's false sense of identity.
I am merely trying to point out a trend in our human nature, not to make any moral judgment calls.
It is funny, in a very sad sort of way, that a person can be starving when they are so close to food! Because this hunger seeks fulfillment only in external things, and never seeks internally.
Our society has encouraged this philosophy and behavior because it promotes more business. It sells more cars. What is shameful is that our churches have this competitive external seeking philosophy.
Jesus, instead of being internalized and accessible to us as he should, is withheld from us, made into a magical being that we can never hope to approach, let alone try to follow.
Who does this? The church. When Jesus is held up as the object of our worship instead of God, or when we worship Jesus as an image of God, then we have objectified him, made him something external. That is treating him like an idol.
This is understandable, because people tend to want to keep some sort of control over everything, even their god. But as long as Jesus is held off at arms length as being external and superior to us in every way, how can we invite him in? How can we find him in us if we are looking outside of us for him?
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