Celebration of Obscurity

A celebration of obscurity counters the message of my culture. My culture labels me irrelevant and obscure, and one ignored by greatness. In contrast, the love of God, my wife, my children bless me in abundance. Any disturbance caused by Ecclesiastes in that ‘even those who are yet to come, will not be remembered by those who follow,’ will pass on to anchored peace once the delusion burns away. Remembered and known by God only counts. For without him, even the most famous, most successful, and most humanly good end becomes completely irrelevant and obscure.

His Ultimate Plan after Celebration of Obscurity

God’s ultimately transforms me so that I will lack nothing and will become mature and complete, James 1:1-8. A mature and complete disciple is a saint. God intends to transform me into a saint. And when finished, to take me home Psalm 116:15.

If I can embrace God’s ultimate plan for my life, then I can wait patiently for his call. Known by him and living for an audience of One makes a celebration of obscurity one facet of the joy he gives.

Instead of recognition, if I ask God, he gives me the peace of Psalm 131

Psalm 131 O Lord, my heart is not proud,nor do I have a haughty look. I do not have great aspirations, or concern myself with things that are beyond me. Indeed I am composed and quiet, like a young child carried by its mother; I am content like the young child I carry. O Israel, hope in the Lord now and forevermore!

With the creation of Twitter, Facebook, and the like, how many follow me may become a temptation to think that if I have many followers, I have much influence. The truth is that even when I have many followers, only a few see my posts. People who end up being friends on Twitter, those who I regularly correspond with is about half a percent or .005 x your number of followers. Would it be a blessing to have a million followers and end up feeling obliged to respond to 5000 people/week? If each response takes three minutes, that would be 250 hours. Can I afford to hire a social media manager? Thank you Lord for my obscurity.

Consider, would I prefer to live a lie as in the Naaman Complex?

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