We have so much information thrown at us every day we don’t know how to sift out what is meaningful and what is meaningless. As a result, we are reduced to trying to get our “message” out in short, pithy ways that capture some sort of attention, but ultimately fails to communicate what we really want to say. We’ve become slaves to it.

We are flooded with commercials and catch words. We allow headlines from internet sites to overwhelm us. We don’t take time to understand “meaning” anymore. We live in wall-to-wall noise.

“In the shambles of fragmented assurances from the past, our longing for goodness and rightness and acceptance –and orientation — makes us cling to bumper slogans, body graffiti, and gift shop nostrums that in our profound upside-down-ness somehow seem deep but in fact make no sense: ‘Stand up for your rights’ sounds so good…

“Such sayings contain a tiny element of truth. But if you try to actually plan your life using them you are immediately in deep, deep trouble. They will head you 180 degrees in the wrong direction…

“What is truly profound is thought to be stupid or trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be profound. That is what it means to fly upside down.” (Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy)

It’s not just bumper sticker theology. It’s bumper sticker politics. It’s from the “right” and the “left.” We just don’t want to dive in and see what truth really is anymore. Especially in the Church, it is like we have become bored with Christ. We are SOOO beyond those “simple” words in that simple “Bible.”

God help us to actually READ what is there, and long to understand what Christ is asking of us!