So, it occurs to me that we are an obsessive people.  I mean, we obsess over everything.  We obsess over celebrities.  One look at the Supermarket checkout confirms our celebrity obsession.  Listening to talk radio or watching cable news confirms that some of us obsess over politics.  A trip to the bookstore tells us how many obsess over weight-loss.  The spread of plastic surgery and little used gym memberships illuminate an obsession with physique and looks.  We obsess over money, career, relationships, power and pleasure.  We obsess over our children–their education, their sports and even their owies.  It seems that all of us have something we obsess over.

Yet, there is one obsession we don’t have. There is one we ought obsess over, yet we pay it lip service.  That One is Christ.  “Work our your salvation with fear and trembling,” Paul wrote to the Philippians.  It seems we have Biblical warrant for a Christ-obsession.  In fact, I suggest the Christian should be more obsessed with the Lord, Jesus Christ, than with any of the other ‘obsessions’ of life.  When my weight, job, politics, money or whatever is taking up more of life and  mental energy than Christ, I think that is a problem.

Seriously, how many Christians spend more time concerned with work than with Christ?  How many spend more time worried about losing a few pounds than they do about gaining some righteousness?  How many spend more time focused upon what some celebrity is doing or wearing than they do over what Jesus did?

I wonder what it might look like if Christians rejected the obsessions of our world and embraced 1 obsession–the Kingdom of God and His righteousness?  I imagine we’d see an explosion in distinctly Christian behavior, and perhaps more outsiders would understand their need for Jesus.