Hidden Treasure

I like moving because I love finding things.  The last two days of boxing up our house in preparation for our upcoming move have produced a really cool watch, several books, and at least ten tubes of chap stick.  Fun and useful things laying around the house that I had either forgotten about or thought I had lost forever. 

It is amazing the number of things that you forget you have when you get settled into a home.  It doesn’t take long.  You settle in, begin to accumulate some stuff, get comfortable, and grow complacent about the things that lie unused right under your nose. 

Often our lives function in the same fashion.  We settle in to our life patterns, grow comfortable with them, and miss out on the fullness of the blessings and gifts of God that could be ours.  

But what Jesus commands is altogether different.  In Matthew 7:7-8 He says “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened for you.  For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.”   

Jesus says ask, seek, knock...and you will find.  What is common about each of these is that they require movement.  In other words, Jesus says move and I will show up.  And when I show up I will provide you with the next step in your life.  

I am greatly challenged by the comments of Kevin DeYoung in his recent book “Just Do Something”  

"...when it comes to most of our daily decision, and even a lot of life's "big" decisions, God expects and encourages us to make choices, confident that He's already

determined how to fit our choices into His sovereign will. Passivity is a plague among Christians. It's not just that we don't do anything; it's that we feel spiritual for not doing anything. We imagine that our inactivity is patience and sensitivity to God's leading. At times it may be; but it's also quite possible we are just lazy. When we hyper-spiritualize our decisions, we can veer of into implusive and foolish decisions. But more likely as Christians we fall into endless patterns of vacillation, indecision, and regret. No doubt, selfish ambition is a danger for Christian, but so is complacency, listeless wandering and passivity that pawns itself off as spirituality. Perhaps our inactivity is not so much on God as it is an expression of the fear of man, the love of the praise of man, and disbelief in God's providence."

Don’t just sit there.

Don’t grow complacent.

Do something.  

Move.

You never know what you might find.