Inconvenient - adjective 1. not easily accessible or at hand 2. inopportune; untimely 3. not suiting one’s needs or purposes. There are some wonderful things in life we can desire, like falling in love, having great friendships, or a career we’re passionate about. There is also a great danger of taking for granted these things that are so important to us and mean so much to our lives. Without them we would not be who we were meant to be. As wonderful as these things are, nothing is more meaningful than truly knowing God and having a relationship with Him. It is the most satisfying thing we can do as human beings. Yet because God SEEMS inaccessible we fail to pursue a relationship with Him. God’s word says, “when you seek me with all your heart you will find me.” God is hard to find because He wants us to desire Him as much as we desire the things of this life and world before He reveals Himself to us. Even when our lives and the world at large have fallen far short of real happiness, we fail to seek for God. We are a broken and fallen race yet we keep trying to live our lives without Him. What drives us to such independence from God, especially when He is our only hope? For to many of us, to take the time to have a relationship with God is just too inconvenient. Imagine someone you love deeply treating you as an inconvenience. This is how the world treats God. His morality, truth and requirements for goodness are seen as an inconvenience. To serve Him is seen as an outrageous inconvenience. We tell ourselves God should be serving us and that we are the center of the universe after all. His morality is untimely and inopportune for our plans and purposes. In our myopic selfish and sinful lives we avoid Him because He convicts us that we are selfish. It is inconvenient to walk in the truth and serve God because we don’t want to live by principle but rather by pleasure. So we remain unsatisfied pursuing things that are meaningless because pursuing the truth is inconvenient. The word inconvenience to many means not doing anything that does not serve our personal needs and purposes. The grand needs and purposes of God are lost in our petty selfish lives. When we look at our entertainment values we see, Jersey Shore, Desperate Housewives, or celebrities with questionable moral values. We find ourselves enamored by the lives of the most shallow and selfish people. We make them our heroes because they have reached celebrity. Celebrity takes no sacrifice — just ego, pride, arrogance, and a selfishly driven lust for more attention. Jesus is a hero because heroes sacrifice and inconvenience themselves to love others as themselves. If we cannot learn to love God who is perfect how shall we ever love one another who are so imperfect. We need to come to church where our short comings will be healed. Making the pursuit of God a worthwhile convenience will result in a true and lasting happiness. -Sal Termini