God on the Margins (4 of 7)
Series: Ezra
Robert Dawson
Haggai 1
I have come to the conclusion that I suffer from some form of attention deficit disorder. I am so easily distracted. I open up my email program to write and email and saw that I had mail already in the inbox. I check the mail, answer it, made a phone call or two based on it and then I closed out the program without doing what I set out to do to begin with. This story can be repeated 100 different ways 100 times a day.
1. I pick up my iPad to open my Kindle App to look up something in one of my books and I see an email or notice and the story repeats.
2. I pick up my iPhone to make a call and notice a couple of missed text messages and the story repeats.
3. I print something off for my study or something I am currently working on and walk into Lorri's office to pick it up and she has a question or a message from one of you and the story repeats itself.
4. I go out to get my tools to clean the yard and notice something else that needs doing in the garage or tool shed and the story repeats itself.
I have the attention span of a gnat. I lose sight of what I am supposed to be doing so easily. Marginal things find themselves front and center while central things find themselves on the margins.
What's worse is this is true of my life when it comes to spiritual matters as well. In life, the important things, the primary things, seem to be marginalized while the marginal becomes central and primary. God ends up being marginal rather than central. Life takes over and before I know it or realize it God has been pushed to the periphery of my life.
That is what happened to the Jews who returned from exile to rebuild the Temple and reestablish themselves as a people with God at the center of their identity and life.
They started out focused and excited. They rebuilt the altar. They repaired the foundations of the Temple but along the way they met some opposition and their focus shift ...
Series: Ezra
Robert Dawson
Haggai 1
I have come to the conclusion that I suffer from some form of attention deficit disorder. I am so easily distracted. I open up my email program to write and email and saw that I had mail already in the inbox. I check the mail, answer it, made a phone call or two based on it and then I closed out the program without doing what I set out to do to begin with. This story can be repeated 100 different ways 100 times a day.
1. I pick up my iPad to open my Kindle App to look up something in one of my books and I see an email or notice and the story repeats.
2. I pick up my iPhone to make a call and notice a couple of missed text messages and the story repeats.
3. I print something off for my study or something I am currently working on and walk into Lorri's office to pick it up and she has a question or a message from one of you and the story repeats itself.
4. I go out to get my tools to clean the yard and notice something else that needs doing in the garage or tool shed and the story repeats itself.
I have the attention span of a gnat. I lose sight of what I am supposed to be doing so easily. Marginal things find themselves front and center while central things find themselves on the margins.
What's worse is this is true of my life when it comes to spiritual matters as well. In life, the important things, the primary things, seem to be marginalized while the marginal becomes central and primary. God ends up being marginal rather than central. Life takes over and before I know it or realize it God has been pushed to the periphery of my life.
That is what happened to the Jews who returned from exile to rebuild the Temple and reestablish themselves as a people with God at the center of their identity and life.
They started out focused and excited. They rebuilt the altar. They repaired the foundations of the Temple but along the way they met some opposition and their focus shift ...
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