The Impetus of Tension

It is amazing that the body of Christ has chosen to ignore the standards of the bible until something bad happens. We stand on our own secular thoughts and then consider them to be sacred. Dr. Micheal Eric Dyson refers to these as “tensions.”

“So there are tensions and, in fact, these multiple tensions define my intellectual projects and existential identities: tensions between sacred and secular, tensions between the intellectual and religious, tensions between preaching and teaching, and so on. But I think they are useful, edifying tensions, tensions that help reshape ongoing evolution as a thinker, writer, teacher, preacher and activist.” – Michael Eric Dyson” Open Mike”2003

The paradoxical stance of life sometimes places us in an unfamiliar place called uncertainty.  This place can be frightening for some but at the same time welcoming for others. Uncertainty will ultimately lead you make a decision on the way you think that your life should go. You can choose to enroll in college and seek a degree or you can simply “chill on the corner” and do nothing with your life. That choice is yours to make. But here comes the tension or the grind as we will refer to it in this chapter. That grind, being the sovereignty of God, being properly position in everyday movement of our lives.

These tensions bring salt pack to the spiritual nose of the the believer. Every now and then we must be brought back to reality even as it relates to our faith. As believers we get quite complacent with our faith and thus rest on our morals. That is around the time that God allows the truth to come and knock at our door.

The tensions are constant reminders that we are just sinners saved by grace and not saints that just happen to sin. 

Just my thoughts