Bubble

When I was in college, I became solely focused on what was going on with me and my campus. During my first semester, I went home every other weekend. I was almost always glad to get back to school. During my second semester, I was involved with more activities and work and academics, I hardly went home at all. It seemed like every weekend, I was busy at school. For such a small campus (approximately 1,500 students) in the middle of a small city (population of about 60,000 at the time), there was always something keeping me away from my family and friends back home. If it weren’t for my Intro to World Politics class that required us to subscribe to a major newspaper AND read it, I would not have known what was going on outside of my “bubble.”

Now, though my lifestyle is very different than when I was in college, I still choose to live in my own “bubble.” I do see/hear news reports about some current world events, but I often filter out things I do not want to see. My heart and mind can only handle so much craziness. Why are there some people who think they need to know everything about everyone at all times? Only God can do that. He is ultimately in charge, even when we don’t see it.

Romans 13:1 says Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. 

The world is not perfect yet, but it will be (Revelation 21). No one can take up every just cause and rally against every evil in this world. Jesus Christ came back for all of us. When we believe in Him, the world will be better. Everything will one day be perfect, though. My advice is to take care of your own “bubble” first. Your priorities need to be straight before you try to solve the world’s problems. If you are not loving God first, your priorities are out of order. Trusting Him, you will learn what He wants you to focus on. It may be curing cancer, or digging wells in a village in Africa, or helping with a clothing drive at your local church, or raising your own children to trust in Him. Let us all do our part. I cannot solve all of the problems, but I can focus on where God has sent me.

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. ² And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. ³ And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place^[a] of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people,^[b] and God himself will be with them as their God.^[c] 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

⁵ And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” ⁶ And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. ⁷ The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son. ⁸ But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” Revelation 21:1-8