Sometimes you hear sermons on Sunday morning and sometimes they appear on your desk. On my desk sits a bobble-head Jesus that was given to me as a gift. I noticed yesterday in my hectic, busy day, Jesus had been knocked over and trapped under a binder. He was about to be pushed right off the back of the desk.
This is a wonderful metaphor for how life goes sometimes. We get so busy that our relationship with God gets shoved right off the desk. This can even happen when were are doing things that we think are God related.
Busyness seems to be our human condition, but not what God wants of us. I was just reading this morning in Exodus, chapter 16 about the Israelites in the wilderness. They were hungry and God provided the mysterious manna from heaven. God told them that there would be plenty of this bread-like food every morning to last the whole day. On the sixth day, they were told they could gather two days worth for there would be none on the seventh for it was a day of rest. On the sixth day everyone collected enough for two days.
Guess what happened on day seven? Some of the Israelites got up and went to gather some more manna. There was none and God was a little annoyed (to say the least). (You can read the story for yourself in Exodus 16:22-30)
God is pretty clear that we need to take time to rest and to worship and to just enjoy what God has already given us. The world tells us if we are not working, we are lazy. The world tells us if we are not working hard, we better be playing hard. God tells us to just settle down.
I am going to go find some room for my bobble-head Jesus.
peace,
will
2 comments:
That's one of the funniest pictures I've ever seen.
Good metaphor, though.
loved this post...too true.
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