Our Footsteps: God's Sense of Humor

Sunday, July 20, 2008

God's Sense of Humor

No one can tell me that God doesn't have a sense of humor.

Yesterday I was reading in the gospel of John and came across an interesting verse that jumped off the page. Right after Jesus had just finished feeding a gazillion people, and performed the amazing feat of walking on the water, the people were curious and approached him asking him how he got to the other side of the sea, seeing as he wasn't with the original band of people that took the boat, and there was no other boat on the shore in which he could have been in. So in response to there inquisitiveness, he tells them in John 6:26-27 that they were only after him because they got something good to eat and were hoping for more goodies:

"Truly, truly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you, for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal."

My wife and I entered into a diaglogue about what this verse could mean. We came to the conclusion that, yes it's necessary to work in order to eat - that should be obvious- but that there are other things (namely doing the will of the Father) that take much more important precedence than eating. Our single passion should not be where we are going out to eat this weekend or what is for lunch today or what kind of dessert we are enjoying tonight - but rather what it is that we are doing for the 'kingdom'.

So what do I find so funny about that? God always reinforces biblical truth to us by using object lessons. Right after our discussion we went shopping to get (are you ready for this?).... some food!! A short, easy trip this time - just to get a few odds and ends. When we got home, we realized we had somehow left half of our food we had just paid for at the grocery store.

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