Good morning friends,
A few pieces went out from me this week. You can find them below. For everything in one place, my site holds the archive.
This week, the Lord has been turning my gaze inward. I have felt it in the quiet moments, a gentle but firm pressure on my spirit. I have been writing about the world, about hiding, about deception in plain sight. But the truth is, every word typed was really a mirror held up to my own soul.
My writing has been an act of looking out, but its source is a process of looking in.
He has been showing me how the things I watch, the stories I consume for mere entertainment, are not neutral. They are active agents. They reshape my sensibilities by subtle, steady degrees. They desensitize me to His clear truth while normalizing the world’s polished lies. What I laugh at, what I find intriguing, what I dismiss as “just a show” is programming my heart. It is a drip, drip, drip on the stone of my convictions.
And He has shown me how my own focus on the world’s brokenness, my analysis of its decay, can become a twisted facilitator for my retreat from it. I can use my discernment as an excuse for my disengagement. I can mistake my fear of infection for a virtue, when it is often just a refined form of hiding. I can gaze upon His beautiful, fallen world and choose to see only the fall, missing the beauty He still sustains and the mission He still has for me within it.
The articles this week are born from that internal churning.
The Cellar and the Flame is my wrestling with the seductive lie of spiritual hiding. It is a call out of the bunker, onto the anvil where real faith is forged.
Christians, Aliens and Demons is that gaze turned outward, recognizing a grand deception being rehearsed in our culture, preparing for a spiritual seduction many will miss because they are looking for little green men, not fallen angels.
The Joke is the Hook is the practical examination of that very programming. It is a look at how a clever story can make the broad path feel like a playful game, and how we are being coached, laugh by laugh, to accept a godless reality.
So as you read this week, know that these words come from a place of personal recalibration. The conviction you might feel is first a conviction I am feeling. The call to action is a call I am answering in my own living room, in my own choices, in my own media diet.
Let us look inward together. Let us ask what we are letting in, and why we are so often tempted to retreat. The furnace that tests our faith is often lit by the content we consume and the isolation we justify.
That is where I am this week. I am glad you are here to walk this path with me.
That is all, and thank you for reading.
If you enjoy Faith In The Fast Lane, I would be incredibly grateful for your support. Consider using one or more of the links below.
You can also find me on other social media platforms using the below links.
On X (formerly Twitter) : Shashue Monrauch on X
On YouTube: Shashue Monrauch on YouTube
On Instagram: Shashue Monrauch on IG
On NOSTR:
Monrauch npub1xkzvafzxlpssafrzpt2vt24wrlv4n77gzxvw84fnkwn6kz23h0hsa23u7m
Shashue npub1ldn7g28j6rc49gmmyh2yk4z8y688hhuuzgs2v5q2erz784cegshs6427d0
Thanks for your time and support.
Shashue Monrauch