Am I Macro or Micro?

Hello again!  I hope all 2 members of my audience have been doing well since last time:)  I wanted to write a little bit about our scope and focus as Christians.  The question then is, are we Micro-Christians, or Macro-Christians?

I have heard it put several ways before.  We get bogged down in the details of our lives, or we're self centered, or hyper focused on what is going on in our lives.  I've even heard our lives compared to shooting a rifle.  When we look through a scope, the image in our view is amplified, and we can see nothing else around it.  I think these are all good examples of what I like to call being Macro-Christian.  When we think of this in the terms or Economics for example, Microeconomics focuses on small scale immediate effects of the economy, and Macroeconomics looks at the big picture; how something happening in Libya can jack the gas prices up in Georgia for example. 

I think this is the same way in our focus as Christians.  Often when talking to people about God, I've encountered they have such specific questions, or will stick to one specific detail as the sole reason why they don't believe.  We can be so micro mindsetted that we lose sight of God and His glory and love for us.  We can sit there and argue about free will versus predestination.  We can argue about once saved, always saved or whether we can lose our salvation.  When it comes down to it, who cares?!  In my opinion, what really matters is keeping God in the center of my life, and sharing His love through my life and words.

Now, am I immune to this?  Definitely not.  I get very micro about a lot of things, and everything else in my spiritual growth will come to a screeching hault.  I spent about 3 months chewing over a theological argument in my head, and honestly it was just making me frustrated and bringing no glory to God in the process.  Once I realized that, I moved on.  Gradually my beliefs on that subject began to take shape, but it's still a bit ambiguous to me and that's ok.  I am quite certain there are MANY things in my faith and my life that I just won't understand.   Am I saying we shouldn't strive to figure out life's mysteries?  By no means.  All I'm saying is there should be a limit on the time we devote to figuring out everything.  There's a reason we call it "blind faith".  Sometimes we just have to take the plunge, and trust in Him to work out the rest for us. 

Like everything else in my life, I like to keep things balanced, and I think this is important for all of us to do.  If I'm too involved in my work, my relationship with Christy would suffer.  Conversely, if I did nothing at work because I couldn't stand to be apart from Christy for a second, I would most likely be fired.  Or another way to look at it, if I only have good vision up close and made no attempt to correct my distance vision, I would stumble and go through life blurry, seeing nothing more than a few feet in front of my face.  I think this is the same thing in our faith.  We have to have a balance of micro and macro to have things make sense.

This is my challenge to myself, to keep a good balance in my life and my faith.  I plan to explore the things I feel are important in my growth, and for the rest just be thankful for the life I have been given.