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Just another day Matthew 24: 36"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 37As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.[i]
“At times, embracing the status quo is the greatest enemy to advancing in Christian maturity, and it is the leader’s task to keep people from becoming complacent.”[ii]
Our daughter had her bedroom in the basement of our former home in Seattle, WA. She had a tendency to maintain her bedroom similar to the condition of a tornado-ravaged town in the Midwest. The basement of our home flooded the last three out of four years we lived there. The first year, we had to replace the carpets and molding. Some of our daughter’s clothes got wet. No big deal. The second year, we had to replace the carpet again and install an expensive sump pump. Our daughter escaped any loss because all her clothes were stacked on her bed. The final year was the last straw. The vast majority of my daughter’s belongings happened to be on the floor. Her response? “I can’t be responsible for an act of God can I?” My daughter could have been electrocuted in that flood. She left lamps and lights on all over in her bedroom. She lost precious, irreplaceable mementoes from her childhood because she was too stubborn to change. As time passed between floods, she started taking her safety and security for granted again. When she burst into tears over the photo albums of her childhood floating in muddy water in her bedroom she knew: “I can’t live life anymore as just another day.” Notes: [i] Matthew 24:36-39 Excerpted from Compton's Interactive Bible NIV. Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 SoftKey Multimedia Inc. All Rights Reserved [ii] Blackaby, Henry & Richard Spiritual Leadership – Moving People Onto God’s Agenda, Broadman & Holman Publishers, Nashville, TN Copyright (c) 2001 by Henry & Richard Blackaby |
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