Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Thoughts from Sunday’s message:

Some of us want all the Father’s stuff, and we want the ‘freedom’ to do with it what we want, but we don’t really want the Father. Some of us want all the Father’s stuff, and we want to do with His stuff exactly what he wants us to do, but we don’t really want the Father.

Am I…are we…expecting the Father’s stuff to bear a weight it was never designed to carry. Am I, like those of old, worshipping the creation and not the creator. Are there things I’m trusting that can’t bear the full weight of my soul. In my office, there is an old scale. As we listened to Pastor Tim Keller this past Sunday speak about the Prodigal God, and he specifically hit on this idea that our soul has a certain ‘weight,’ it made me think of my scale. What kinds of things do I put on it, even good things, great things…but not the Father. It is no wonder, in the attempt to find what might help balance the scale, that we wear out friendships, spouses, careers, our families, entertainments, possessions and any other sort of thing we seek to prop up our souls with. It is my prayer that I will learn what it means to desire the Father, to enjoy the relationship the Father desires with me, and to use the Father’s stuff to chase after and bless others.

Nate