Because we didn't have Church on Sunday Pastor Will sent out a online message for people to listen to. The pastor speaking was one of the many at a National counseling conference that the Hatfields along with my parents and other leaders in our Church attended last week.
In his message he makes a comment about being "ruined for anything but God." The point being, God is so fulfilling that when we do taste his goodness anything the world can give isn't good enough. Kind of like when we were little and our mom's never let us eat anything before mealtimes. She wanted us to be hungry for the better food coming up. The only problem with that is sometimes my mom's food didn't seem like it was "better" than what I wanted to stuff myself with beforehand. ;) Most of the times it was, though, and even if I didn't think so at the time it would always end up being more fufilling.
In his message he makes a comment about being "ruined for anything but God." The point being, God is so fulfilling that when we do taste his goodness anything the world can give isn't good enough. Kind of like when we were little and our mom's never let us eat anything before mealtimes. She wanted us to be hungry for the better food coming up. The only problem with that is sometimes my mom's food didn't seem like it was "better" than what I wanted to stuff myself with beforehand. ;) Most of the times it was, though, and even if I didn't think so at the time it would always end up being more fufilling.
There is a song by Steven Curtis Chapman that I think states this idea perfectly. The lyrics say say it this way: "I'm playing GameBoy standing in the middle of the Grand Canyon. I'm eating candy sitting at a gourmet feast. I'm wading in a puddle when I could be swimming in the ocean. Tell me what's the deal with me? Wake up and see the Glory."
We have an amazing God who has made His glory avalible to us. But what's more amazing than that concept is that his children decide to "play gameboy" with our eyes glued on the world. All along, though, there is something more astounding than the Grand Canyon right in front of us, God.
If you haven't listened the message I encourage you to let it play as you surf the net.
The Message It is preached by Brad Bigney from Grace Fellowship Church in KY. (yeah he has a little bit of a southren drawl ;)
2 comments:
Why didn't you tell me you had this set thing set up?!
This is amazing! It's like how cool it would have been if I had been able to do anything when it was actually my job!
Awesomeness!
Cool! I like this bog, what a good idea!
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