I’ve been watching a lot of baseball on television this spring and summer. I only get to watch what is being broadcast on Amazon Prime Video but I catch a couple of games a week. It’s been therapeutic. Just checking out, sitting on the big brown couch and watching the boys of summer do what they do.
I was watching the Angels play at home the other day and a foul ball was hit down the right field line and they showed that guy, you know that guy that sits on a little stool with his ball glove and he grabs these foul balls and then tosses them into the stands for the fans to have a souvenir. It was a sunny day in Los Angeles that day and I thought wow! Now that’s a job I would not mind having. How do you get that gig!? Sitting in the sun, getting a tan, soaking up vitamin D, eating sunflower seeds all while watching baseball. Can you apply online?
Ver y few people I know are doing what they thought they would be doing when they grew up. Does that make sense? My older brother sells insurance and I’m pretty sure I never heard him say when we were kids playing sandlot baseball, “Hey, Kenny, when I grow up I want to sell insurance.” Our youngest daughter, Klaire, who is getting married today, graduated with a philosophy degree. What do you do with that? She became a teacher, loves it and just got her master’s in education.
My point is we drift a lot in life. We drift a lot in our Christianity as well. Aimless, maybe, is what I’m thinking about. We are too often random and without aim as we “live” for Jesus. The Apostle Paul said, “I do not run like someone running aimlessly (1st Corinthians 9:26).” We are not always intentional about our lives or our faith, are we?
What I mean is that people for the most part treat their Christianity like one of those lazy rivers at the waterpark. People grab one of those inner tubes, slap it on their backside, jump in the water and drift aimlessly.
The trouble with treating our Christianity this way is we never get anywhere. Oh, it’s fun but it’s not what Jesus describes about following Him in Scripture. It’s sad that some will live their entire lives just being spiritually lazy in the lazy river. Some will never fulfill God’s plan for their lives, never grow up and never grow into what His desire was for their life.
It’s like many people that claim to be Christians are drifting away from Christ and their relationships with God become more and more distant as they grow older rather than closer and deeper and more intimate.
We are told in Ephesians 3:18 to grow in our understanding of the “greatness” of the love of Christ. God wants us to know how big His love is for us, the width, length and the depth of it. Paul made a great statement in Philippians 3:10, he said, “I want to know Christ.” We don’t do this by hanging out in the lazy river. So, jump out of the flow, ditch the inner tube, dry off and let’s start following Jesus in a way so His plan for our lives can unfold. Let’s go!
He told me to tell you that.
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