We can easily become overwhelmed by a world that is most concerned about image.  A new term for it is FOMO.  Fear of missing out.  With this social malady comes the distraction of constant demand for more.  There is a craving of putting on a good front: a projection of a successful self.  More entertainment, more screens, more experiences, more of everything is touted as the solution to FOMO.  This solution is worse than the illness.  The external view point by definition is on the outside.  It does nothing for the inside.  The group of people that are hardest to minister to are those who seem to have their act together.  On the outside they seem to have it all but they live in poverty of the inner life.

But scratch the surface and you realized there is still pain.  FOMO can never be satisfied primarily because it is all external.  FOMO comes from inside and our culture is one of externals.  There is little in our world that offers much to build the cry of the inner life.

The continuance, strength, peace, depth and wisdom that flows from God is the only answer.  It is the inside that is crying out.  It is the inside that needs.  It is the inside that requires something.  And that something is an inner depth of God in us.

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