FOMO

Jesus knows something a lot of us have a really hard time grasping.

The kingdom of God is not about comparison and competition.  It’s not about who’s bigger and who’s greater, it’s not about polls and ratings, score-keeping and one-up-men-ship. As if the universe is the giant see-saw and the only way I can go up is if I put you down.

For it appears that God has a knack  for the so-called losers, for the overlooked and insignificant, a special soft spot towards all the trampled upon and useless.

Jesus doesn’t bite the woman’s bait. He ignores her question and answers the unspoken one, echoing from her heart.

Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again… John 4:13

Everyone…

That’s all of us,. We all alike, sooner or later, get thirsty… again… and again…

Every. One. Of us.

No exceptions.

Men and women. The strong and the weak.  The smart and the stupid.  The beautiful and the plain. The rich and the poor. The fat and the skinny. Jews and Palestinians. Christians and Muslims. Religious and atheists. Athletes and actors. Politicians and constituents. 

The pulpit and the pew. 

Stick any label you wish on any person who ever lived and you’ll discover a thirsty soul underneath.

Even the person whose life appears so amazingly wonderful on their Facebook page or on the cover of a magazine.

Temporarily we may quench our thirst. For a short while, we are looking good. We are managing just fine on our own, thank you very much.

But then it hits us.

GOD! I am thirsty… and nothing, nothing that this world has to offer quite satisfies…

Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again…

But, we feel like we have to try, to taste every well there is in order to make sure we didn’t miss out on something. 

There is actually an acronym describing this condition plaguing our race not just from the dawn of social media but from the dawn of humanity. 

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FOMO?

Fear

Of

Missing

Out