Desperate for Stability

All of us spend our entire lives in order to stabilize ourselves.  We tend to move towards a state of stabilization.  This explains why some of us work very hard while others of us don't—they're both attempts to stabilize.  Those of us who work hard have certain notions of what it means to be ideally stable, and so they build it—careers, wars, revolutions all begin this way.  Those of us who do not work very hard—those of us who may be very lazy, in fact—attempt to maintain a relatively easier mode of stability with high predictability rates and low chances of interruptions.

It's true—unpredictability and chaos are uninvited.  We like it when things are within our realm of understanding.  New things are welcome when we believe it'll help us achieve a new level of stability that we perceive.  So change—smooth ones—always begin with a dawning understanding, a broadening of the mind.  Without it, we are thrown in confusion, and we flail to backtrack to a previous state of things rather than a progressive movement forward.

This is what must be done regarding the Gospel.  Jesus always performs or says something that first broadens your mind, enlarges the capacity of the heart.  Only then can we see that we cannot retreat to a former way of things—in fact, retreating would result in a most destabilizing circumstance since we indubitably have a new paradigm in mind—but we must instead move towards a place that can receive this Gospel.  Such petty attempts at behavior modification is unfounded in retrospect and will result in a slide back into a former construct.

What's great about this is that the world is potentially infinite in possibilities.  God is eternal, and so stability is never fully recognized as the world perceives it—this may seem like unwelcome news at first, but it is actually good; because to us, the very act of chasing Jesus is to achieve complete stability in itself.  The means become the end.  Many of us work in order to reach an accomplishment; the struggle to get there, however, is a nuisance, a step to get where we want to go.  But when we chase Jesus, the struggle is the very act we wish to attain.  The act of running after Christ is in itself our source of pleasure.