As I talked with another teacher from work today, it struck me how idealistic and principled she is despite having no faith in anything. She is one of the better non-Christian Westerners with a strong Christian cultural hangover. After saying our goodbyes, I wondered how I could have become so cynical and hopeless in my outlook on things over the past few years, although I believe in God and even in the eventual victory of the Gospel over all the nations. I realized that if I believe in the kingdom of God, then I am bound to work towards it, and that being cynical about things just means I’m sitting back and not doing what I’m supposed to do. Cynicism is an excuse for not working as hard as I ought to.
As a Christian, as a postmillennial Christian, there is no time for me to be cynical. Instead of complaining, being doubtful, getting depressed, and giving up on everyday things and people around me, I have to get to work and do the best I can in the area given to me.
Is there anything more insanely optimistic and idealistic than believing that one day every person on this planet will bow before God and worship Him … and then working towards that?
Granted, I’m slow on the uptake. It’s not as if this is something I didn’t know. But it’s something that hit me hard today.
For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; He hath established it, He created it not in vain, He formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else. I have sworn by Myself, the word is gone out of My mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. Isaiah 45:18, 23
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