Back in the day I was a fairly big Paul McCartney fan. By fairly big I mean I’d take an interest in his music and loved getting it whenever I could, usually through someone else! Now I’d usually post the track over at the Other Place, but there’s a point to putting here.
Macca’s lyrics are relational and as any good opportunist there’s evidently a connection between how we treat intimate relationships that become sometimes too familiar both in the natural and in the spiritual. Driven by other activities, perhaps noble ambitions, perhaps preoccupied by vocational concerns and even when there’s just the two of you, you’re not really there because there ‘are so many other things to do’.
Whether that ‘s in a loving marital relationship or in the context of engaging in daily devotion to God, sometimes we can be side-tracked, and for every vital moment that our time is not spent in the present moment with the most important present person, it is a waste of time. It is investing in the temporal. It is betting on the guaranteed one-legged loser.
And yet …
And yet, rather than truly devoting ourselves to God with quality time in prayer, meditation and study of Him, we get distracted. Issues of life clouds in the way, and as the issues become more intense so the clouds become thicker, darker, filled with gloom and foreboding. It’s almost as though we’ll never see the sun again.
Let me encourage you, when – not if – you go through those stormy seasons in life. Take some vital moments in life and review the quality of your engagement with God. Not the thrills you get from blessing-perks, a genuine contemplation of how Him and His presence in your life is paramount – if it is paramount. Reflect and then do something about enjoying daily engagement with Him on that intimate level where He’s just as much interested in you business, and He wants you to likewise be as interested in His business.
Hopefully then we’ll grow to the stage where we won’t be full of these but free from these distractions.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
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