They do it for the sake of doing it. It’s what they’ve always done and so when this happens, it’s what they do.
Yet there was always that word – why.
Why are we doing this?
Failure to satisfactorily answer that question often led to anger at the question. How dare the regular activities that underpin the culture ever be questioned. And if you don’t conform to these activities it makes you a social outcast or at best a misfit to be dealt with by neglect and ignorance.
When that alienation is witnessed and that active side-lining of people is seen to be the norm, it leads others not to ask those questions and just accept the status quo.
It can lead the others to do that, but it doesn’t have to lead you to that same conclusion. Time is too short to be following pointless and ridiculous activities when that time can be used to pursue the things that are life-giving and hope-filling. There is enough in righteousness, joy and peace to assure that asking the question and following it with an understanding that there are better things to be doing – true Kingdom pursuits – will work out better for you.
Don’t be intimidated – keep asking the question.
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Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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