Folds of my mind

As I continue to write the sequel to the Wooded King it struck me I have an entire kingdom dancing up there in my mind. Then I began thinking what else is contained in the folds of my mind. There are some entertaining tidbits of information in there surprisingly, so while I continue to pursue a new publisher I thought I would continue to write to keep my creative mind active and ease the waiting. As I play the waiting game once again I will be jumping between this blog and bigbookidea.com I will do my best to keep all of you faithful readers up to date. Maybe I will have to have a vote for the title of my sequel the kingdom in my mind is full of ideas but can't seem to pluck only one. Enjoy!

Is it wrong that I am a Christian and want to live intentionally different?

I have had this thought now for a few months stirring in my head. Where did it come from? I wondered to myself one day as I listened to a Christian drop a few swear words casually while I cringed inside. Why? Am I lame or weak? What is this cringe inside me?

I believe it comes from the reason why I wanted to be a disciple of Jesus in the first place a reason that should be in the heart of everyone who accepts Christ, an intentional difference. I think of Jesus in moments like this and try to picture him taking taxes from the people he taught, or prostituting himself or having filthy language fall from his tongue. The picture I come up with is not a picture of my Jesus and the Jesus all of us follow. He related with these people but he did not do what they did to relate to them. I think filthy language sounds funny in our terms today but really what they are saying is swearing plain and simple it really is in scripture surprisingly enough.

I myself wonder a lot on certain things and perhaps question to an extent but not to the point where it leads me to be inactivite or worse yet join in the things the bible says not to do. So again I ask myself the question why do I feel so wrong that I want to live so intentionally different?

It becomes plain to me as I write this, the answer to my question is… At times it feels that living intentionally different is looked down upon with statements of, “People would feel uncomfortable if we didn’t relate to them on their level.” I say "No, they feel uncomfortable when we lack the wanting inside ourselves to be intentionally different." We should make people wonder why we don’t drop the F-bomb when we mess up something, or go out to the bars at night to hang out with friends or swear on Facebook. Lead them to the questions they need to ask so it takes them to the heart of why we as Christian’s ARE intentionally different in the first place. Lead them there that is what we need to do to make others like us, we want them to become a disciple of Jesus to know what that means to realize that living intentionally different is a great purpose to have in a world that is so Chaotic. So I ask again why do I cringe inside when a Christian swears. I whisper in my mind, “Intentionally different, is that what we are mirroring?” Intentionally different is it possible?

Ephesians 4:29 English Standard Version (ESV) 29 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.