The week-end Is Coming!

One of the hardest things about the Covid Stay-at-home is the boredom.  Without church on Wednesdays and Sundays, I don’t know what day of the week it is.  Every day is the same.  I used to soooo look forward to the weekend when things slowed down.  Now, every day is slow.  Time was when I began to anticipate the weekend about Wednesday.  You know - Hump Day - with Caleb the camel.  The worst of the week is over, and the weekend is coming.  Thursday is better and Friday is great!  The only thing bad about the weekend is the knowledge that Monday is coming.  As much as I looked forward to the weekend, I dreaded Mondays.  Have you noticed that there are Mondays in every week?  Actually, there’s a whole string of Mondays ahead!  But there will be a day when Mondays will end.  God has promised His children an eternal rest.  The writer of the book of Hebrews said in Hebrews 4:9, “There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.”  He was talking about the eternal rest that we will enjoy someday when we are safe in the arms of our Savior, Jesus Christ.  So as much as you might dread Mondays, there is an eternal “weekend” coming.  Have you trusted in Jesus as your Lord and Savior?  If you have, you have that eternal rest to look forward to!  Just imagine, an eternal weekend with no Monday in sight!

First or Only?

Suppose you were ready to get married and you sat down with your fiancé to have a heart to heart talk.  You said to her, “Now when we get married, I want you to know that you are my number one girl.  I may still go out with other girls, and I may like other girls, but you are still my number one girl.”  How would that go over?  Not very well, right?  So how do we get away with that sort of logic with God?  We read our Bibles - God’s very Words - IF we have the time to.  We pray a short mechanical prayer before we eat just because we should.  We go back to church Sunday evening and Wednesday evening IF we can.  We are in church Sunday UNLESS we have to work.  Is God our WHOLE life, or is He just a good idea to add to our busy lives?  Jesus said in Luke 14:26&27, “If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.”  Hey, does your bride want to share you with other women?  No.  Does God want to share your devotion with other things?  No.  Think about it.

Us or God?

This Covid stuff is killing me.  It’s bad enough not to see my children, but not to see my grandchildren?!  That’s too much to bear!  I go by and leave plastic bags on the doorknob with goodies in them.  Kinder Joy eggs, Floam, Hot Wheels, well you get the picture.  So, they are so excited to see the bag hanging on the door that they grab the bag and disappear.  But wait; what about me?  I understand that they’re just kids.  I get that.  But what about the one who brings the stuff?  Hey, wait a minute.  That’s exactly how we treat the dear Lord above.  We want Him to give us stuff when we should just want Him.  Let’s not be too hard on the kids.  After all, they learn from us adults how to pray to God.  What about adoration instead of asking.  How about what God wants instead of what we want.  What about us pleasing God instead of God pleasing us.  When John saw God’s glory, he fell on his face and said in Revelation 4:11, “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.”  We are God’s toys; we are God’s playthings.  Praise the good Lord above for who He is, not for the stuff he gives us.  Novel thoughts.