Check this out, you take a look in a mirror and you see this vast mountain range with a setting sun behind it, and a vast jungle that lay before it. How beautiful you think, my life is so organized, it is such a nicely painted picture. There the mountains, those are my freinds and family, my priorities are right for they stand above the rest. The jungle and its powerful eternal rives flow, that is my carreer, it fills my day and gives me purpose as I over look it all. It fills me with a feeling of completeness. But ofcourse, there is the most important part of my life picture, the setting sun, so beautiful and so praiseworthy. That has to be God. That is Jesus!
Wow, it really sounds like a beautiful picture doesn't it? Like a life that is on track to the right place for the right reasons, doesn't it? I mean, God is above it all, He is the center peice of the whole painting. Well, whats the problem! Umm, well, let us look at it again, what is the sun dooing? Its setting isn't it! Why?
Looks to me like we do have a problem folks. I hope you dont identify with this painting as much as I do, we are on this road getting our priorities in order. Dooing what we need to do to serve God with our full potential. I think we are getting something wrong, that sun should not be setting. If it is setting in your life, if it seems that it has done all it really needs to do in our lives and now its time for the rest of the world too see it cause Im perfect, than were wrong. Ponder this, the mountains are too high, the jungle is too vast, the rivers are too strong. In comparision folks we have let God become just another part of the painting that is our life. When in fact we should tear that painting apart, why? It should not consist of mountains, vallys, jungles, rivers, or sky! It should just be a picture of a bright sun, nothing around it! Why, well, God is too great, friend, to be a part of your 'life picture', do you really realize who God is, I dont. Do really understand what, in its intierity, God has done for you, I dont think I do! God needs to be God, and if we are to even attempt to live our live's to be Christ-like, than we need to shape up and put God back where He belongs. I am saying this. We always seem to get idolizing right, spending our every moment in it, constantly thinking, wondering about what we are dooing and how it will affect your idol plans. Get it straight, if thats how we idolize, than idolize GOD! Our life picture will be more of a goal, something we paint and put on the wall and stare at constantly, our life needs to be like Jesus, like that picture of the bright and perfect sun, and noting but that sun!
Thoughts from a Rabbit.
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