Maslows 'hierarchy of needs' attempts – quite successfully – to simply put life, in perspective. How does significance matter if we have no shelter? So what… about the world we live in, if we're so screwed up about what's happened to us and how we feel obliterates cares of overall reality?

Possibilities and priorities. The needs we have, following a ladder of luck or achievement. Health, then comes money. Maybe, slip companionship in there. And once this up-enough – 'actualisation' or significance in the wider context – reach the pinnacle. We made it.

Maslow's undoubtedly correct and if God wasn't in and about, without much to question, or challenge.

Here's me tip-tapping away like this because I'm currently able. Raining outside, wind a blowing. Electricity driving this machine pumps out the wall. I think for a moment at illness one or two I know are facing. Or Syria. Oh Syria. Yemen. Or…

Too awake, let alone any personal contexts, to expect these days and ways are a given. Today I can. Truly, if I get into prayer, minimise the stupidity, keep in the word – and do some hours towards money – scaled my mountain of needs.

The fight I'm in, with and for God, is to secure global to local 'hierarchy' from the thief. Freedoms we can still witness, God wants to remain. For most of the world – to re-gain. In this the best options for 'new life', the gospel and God. But the needs-hierarchy threatens this. And God doesn't want the lands any more robbed and people pillaged.

The idea we do better with God, worse the world or our life gets, is a mixed-assessment. Somewhat and sometimes.

God loves us, loves us all, in the fullness of celebration of families and singles all getting on. God hates war, famine, suffering. A spectrum like Maslow's, which God wants all for all. At least those sincerely joining in this desire and not hatred and destruction.

For some God cannot help because (we) don't want. Been my story as much as the opposite. Crazy intoxication through to thoughtless decisions, on to periods of say-God/think blank-on. Never not the-theory but action are the words received and spoken. Action is evident. What are we listening to?

In this early type up:

How came? I'm on God (in Christ) and why so-few others? And what's happening in the world, (ok – places like England) as the middle-class are diminishing and this 'hierarchy' collapsing?

Again I saw something meaningless under the sun. Reading 'Ecclesiastes' we could conclude that the world is meaningless therefore get in a bubble with God and be done?

But it doesn't say this. Go Gnostic about it and see matter so subservient to unseen activity and reality. There's a time for... and contrasts in direction of thought defy the notion – this world is empty/God full. This life not eternity – why fuss? Etc.

Time-ticking. To the wrap (up).

Few Christians? An exodus from active fellowship rumbles on. Rare exceptions given that do what they do, keep em seeking and praying. Very here and there.

Me? Initially, the need for something 'bigger' than the abundance I lived in and the need to move-on. What else could there be? More than this? Outstanding grace.

God locked-on and for all the wavering and waylaying…since.

There's something happening here… “and (we) don't know what it is… do we?”

The shift is in significance. All the non-Gospel like answers that held many in fertile ground to receive. Dice-appearing. One hundred years ago we were a different breed. Since, and especially this last 30 years we've seen the wind knocked out of satisfaction-sails.

We live for our children’s future – for example? True today, if there looked to be anyway to do much to secure this?

Live a happy life? Retire and live-out a fitting end? Become enlightened, transcend average and normal? Make art, love, do good. La-la-la, live for today. The week-end raz. Footie or festies. Holidays in the...

All under realistic threat transforming into Huxley and Orwell. More, Bad New World than '84.

The discovery of empty is hidden by the extremes. Too poor or rich. Too self-actualised, no food. Too mind-controlled by the media mostly. (Let alone other devices). No, 'or…' on that one. Mind bent through tech or..? Nope… we all are. Less enough? Sound more like me. Bells, bells, bells.

To conclude (have I even begun?):

“Meaningless, meaningless...” the major mass-psychological shift, this past two or three decades. Not even, all about 'God is' thiwas more apparent for more people but there were other ideals and securities that ...gone. Darn gone.

Conclusion: the basis for belief in God, is God responds. Calls and open.

The attack against this is on our free-like thinking and speaking to get in a process to hear difference. Disagree like a hurricane but be able to.

Not so much that we discover and initially get God but engagement in real differences, opens the door. God is found in the search. Not – typically – in a static proposition, that comes out the blue and we-go “yes”.

We eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die and – stuff otherwise, because we've been boxed into thinking. Boxes. Questions go so far… but not that far. There are other reasons, not least, church services are 'pants'. But aside, the enemy of the Gospel is conformity of thinking, regardless if the alternative – in enquiry and debate – appears to us correct.

Post from TS has come to mind. Perhaps it is relevant. Shove it on anyway.

http://www.truthscoop.net/the-flat-earth-controversy

Peace. And love.