“The Great Nothing”.

2 Thessalonians 1:11 NASB
“To this end also we pray for you always, that our God will count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith with power”.

What prevents us from forward momentum? What thing lurks in the dark recesses, waiting to pounce? While we may not know its name, we can feel its presence the moment we become still. Breathing upon our neck, we smell it, hear it, and it remains unseen.

“The nothing” – that great wolf that devours our creative energies, our hopes and dreams. He that stands between us and desire. Yet I cannot stand still, I cannot give in, I must rage against the coming darkness. I will flee his claws of apathy that would enclose my heart in their cold grasp.

It is not within me to sit idle, to do nothing, to waste away with only the whispers of that beast to torment me, to be prey for the wolf. No, I know to whom I belong – and His call is one of movement, of action. I shall resist.

And so if I am to be true to my Lord, I must rise up and walk. It is not for me to know the way ahead; it is for me to merely follow. Forsaking my own vain interpretation of following for the true path of a disciple. Thus with all that is within, I will stand, I will follow, I will answer his call and be counted worthy.

Luther