Fourteen things I have tried so hard to understand but have yet to figure out ...

A SIGN FULL OF TRUTH FOUND AT THE ST LOUIS ZOO


(Once again we approach the unapproachable. I finally realized that for the first time in my life nobody can fire me. And so I decided to just put things out there. Here is what is on my mind. You can like it or you can hate it but at least I am thinking and my brain has not *yet* turned to mush. Tonight you get "a bakers dozen" plus three.)

1. Why is it that we cheer for one church over another when that is like cheering for a teams left fielder over their short stop?
2. Why is it that the most gifted people seem to lose interest in their gifts more quickly than less gifted people?
3. Why is it that the more you say "God, do what it takes to make me the man you want me to be" the more difficult He makes life?
4. Why is it that God is our "Abba Father" and yet sometimes He decides not to speak to us for a while?
5. Why is it that people get mad at you when you tell them that God does speak today and not only through the bible?
6. Why is it that my spirit craves God's voice and then when He speaks everything inside of me insists that it was a coincidence?
7. Why is it that churches say they want to grow and then throw away God's biblical methods in favor of denominational programs?
8. Why is it that spiritual gifts are treated in the church as an optional luxury when God gave them to point you to your life's job description?
9. Why is it that in practicality gifts mean less than being personally connected and yet in reality being personally connected is ultimately doomed to failure without gifts?
10. Why is it that leaders hesitate to turn over responsibility for areas they are not gifted in to people who are gifted in them?
11. Why is it that churches expect their pastor's to have all of the spiritual gifts and act like he is being lazy when he does not?
12.Why is it that the more spiritually ignorant a person is the louder he speaks and the louder he speaks the more people listen?
13. Why is it that even when I am deeply angry with people I cannot help loving them when I see them?
14. Why is it that I can forgive and forget your wrong doings but I keep rehashing my own and drag them up every opportunity I get?
15. Why is it that I am unemployed and yet I have to go to work in the morning?