HER CHAIR: “Hi. How are you?” I stood, holding open the door to the bank.
“Oh, I’m okay I suppose. I just came from seeing my foot doctor, and well, I just can’t wait to get home to my chair,” the elderly lady said doing her best to conceal her pain.
A CHAIR: As I reached the car, the words “my chair” were still echoing in my ears. I was reminded of a pastor I once listened to, who used to encourage us to have a chair, where we would sit and have time with God.
THE CHAIR: Then I thought of James Rubart’s book, “The Chair”. A good read about an antiques dealer who is given, what appears to be a simple chair, but he is told it was made by Jesus when he was working in his dad’s carpenter shop. He struggled to believe this, but when things happened to those who sat in it, his acceptance, begin to grow.
Your CHAIR: Do you have one? Do you have a special place where you like to go and sit and spend time with God? Either in his word, or talking with him through prayer, or a place where you just go and absorb God. I hope so.
MY CHAIR: I have a chair, and I value the time I take to sit in God’s presence. Yes, I know, life gets busy, and it takes discipline, or a strong desire to be with God, to take a moment and step off of the hamster wheel. You know the wheel just goes round and round. No matter how hard you try, you get nowhere. Perhaps getting off, and resting with God will get you further down the road of life than you ever could imagine. Sit, invite God into your room, into your life, and see what begins to happen in you.
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A somber event took place in front of me. The reality is this; for a man, using his own reasoning, which is limited, nothing could satisfy him. No proof would be enough. Everything God might do, or has done, to prove his own existence, some men would reason it away, and have. It’s as if they try to make God conform to their rules of existence, and that’s just not going to happen.
Old Testament time: Mankind was given “time” by God. He created light, and separated it from dark. He called the light “day”, and the dark “night”. That was day one. (Gen. 1:3-5) Pastor Robert Morris says, time gives us stability, and rhythm to life. During eternity, there will be no need for time. Jesus operates in a whole different realm than we do. He is not bound by time. He can go back in time, and forward in time, in no time.
After my father passed away, recently, I reflected on his life, and realized there were a lot of gifts, “life lessons” he gave me, but today I want to share the 5 biggest ones.
There it is. Right there in front of you. It is unwelcomed, and even now, is unwanted, but there it is. A situation has developed in your presence. One that activates emotions. They seem to come out of nowhere, and they arrive so fast.
What do you charge for your LOVE? Is that by the ounce, gallon, hour, or some other form of measurement? Do people, or your family, feel you can’t be bothered? Your friends never ask for a favor, because they know you won’t help for whatever convenient excuse you flip to in your “excuse Rolodex”? LOVE is more than words. It is action. It does. It does whatever it takes. It does, whatever it can, for others.
My favorite part, of Jesus’ death on the cross is this; the very moment he exhaled his last breath the thick, tall, heavy curtain that separated man, from the Holy of Holies was torn from top to bottom. It’s my favorite part, because now, we have direct access to God’s presence.