Vachon Imagined

A minister in this world is anyone who shares information. They share life. They infuse life into you.

But this life is riddled with something that is already over.

The moment anything comes into awareness and moves as it should, it is already over.

Today we live in a world of ministers who proclaim the gospel, or what they understand to be truth, through countless mediums: television, podcasts, the internet, daily conversations, chat groups. And people go searching for something.

They may be searching to become “better,” and in doing so, they have already lost the point.

They may be searching to feel something, and in doing so, they have already lost the point.

You are already feeling something. Whatever you feel is already moving through you, and therefore it is already temporary.

Anytime ministry becomes about money, there is entanglement.

What was once shared as life now becomes something that must produce a return. The minister needs something from the one receiving the message, and the one receiving it begins to believe that something must be given in order to receive.

Life becomes polluted.

People begin choosing people. They idolize people. And the people being idolized receive something from it too—even when what they receive is cruelty. It is still something received.

This is why we must live in God.

Not as something outside of ourselves, but as God, moving in life. It does not exist in this world as a permanent fixture, but rather as a steady, abiding truth.

It is.

It is.

When a minister seeks to make you into something, they have already failed.

They have distorted truth.

Because now you are trying to become someone other than yourself.

Truth is already in you.

You do not have to go anywhere to discover it. You do not have to do anything to possess it. In fact, the less you learn about it, the less polluted it becomes.

So while we may have ministers, and we may be grateful for what they share, we should never lose sight of God—the ever-dwelling presence of life in all things, asking nothing of us in the way humans do.