I got up Sunday morning thinking it seems like the last thing people need is another sermon. We are so busy as a culture and we have so much to do - did I really want to stand up and give people one more thing to do, one more rule to follow?
I keep thinking about how glad I am that all of our kids are grown up. What I’m saying is we aren’t chasing our kids all over the state as they play ball on Friday nights or trying to remember that it’s our week to buy the snacks for the soccer team. Those days are over.
My point is we are all busy, and too often busyness is a distraction to what really matters. If we were honest we would admit we worship the god of busyness, it makes us culturally cool to fill every minute of our day and week with something to do. What would we post on social media if we weren’t on the river, eating Mexican food or in the mountains or at the beach? Peer pressure is still a thing isn’t it? It really keeps us from being who we were designed to be. Sometimes I just want to tell myself, “Grow up!”
I might be old, cynical and tired but I enjoy evenings on the big brown couch with the Blonde. I value my lazy days off that typically consist of going for a ride in the country with the top off of the Jeep. The most exciting thing that has happened to us recently is having a family of raccoons move into our attic. Praise the Lord for the guy that sets the trap and hauls these bad neighbors out to the country to pester someone else. It felt like we were reliving our apartment days. Yikes!
Can we talk? Can I encourage you based on my experience? Slow down. Very few of our kids or grandkids are going to grow up and become professional athletes. Not doing everything, all the time is not going to hurt them. Sooner or later dads, you have to hang up your cleats and stop living vicariously through your kids. Sorry if that hurts but it’s truth and that’s the business I’m in.
Jesus told a friend named Martha that she was busy—therefore distracted and needed to focus exclusively on one thing, Him. Jesus said in Matthew 22:37, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”
Mark Batterson wrote a great book on this passage entitled, All In (don’t wait, buy it today - it will bless your socks off). This is a sermon that always preaches. Be all in with God, make Him your life, not Little League, not your kids or grandkids and certainly not your grand dogs. Don’t live for the next vacation, live for Jesus! If we will be “all in” we will filter out the busyness that distracts us. No, we don’t need another sermon, we need to start living the sermon.
He told me to tell you that.
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