Today in chapel Brian (a fellow teacher) spoke about how Christ lived on earth 30 years as a carpenter before He began his three year mission to the people. His question was: Why would Jesus have to live 30 years before setting out on his mission? One of the answers he gave - made me pause for thought. He said that this was so - because Jesus really lived the life that we live. He learned to "sympathize" with us. Yes there are days when we do not want to go to work or we do not feel like doing something. He probably had those days too. But he still lived out his life - he still went to work, did what he was supposed to do...WAS OBEDIENT to the calling of his life: putting the best of what was in Him into what God wanted Him to do at that moment.
Sometimes I can too easily make what I feel about my situation - the reality of my situation. This is dangerous. Because my feelings many times do not reflect objective truth about life and about who God is. God is good - no matter how I feel. This is true - and when concentrate on how I FEEL about my life I take my eyes off of who HE is.
Let me keep my eyes focussed on the right things.
\manda
2 comments:
Interesting: I'm fighting a similar battle over here.
I wonder how often he went to work as a carpenter and thought "this is not what I was born on this earth to do" and "when is my REAL purpose going to start to take shape" and..."God? How about now? How bout......now!?"
Hello Amanda,
I loved this piece... well written and such an excellent point! It did make me laugh because I was just considering having myself a nice little "sick day" to rest up and wallow in a bit of mid-week doldrums.
Anyways, just wanted to send you some best wishes as I know things are rather busy for you, especially with the mini-Olympics and all!
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