The Best Chair You May Imagine

Good Monday morning! Oh, that almost sounds like a mistake was made somewhere. Which one of these doesn't go together? Whichever part you don't like, it is Monday morning and let us do our best to make it good. Okay, a man looks at a smashed clay pot. He doesn't know what a pot looks like, but over the years he glues the pieces back together as best he can. He does not know if any pieces are missing, or if he has too many pieces for one pot. However, the shape he glues back together he uses to say all pots are thus and such. Then, just to go quite over the edge, he says the creator of this pot, the potter, looks like a better version of his cobbled together pot. Silly, right? Yet, we look at humans in the way they are now, and we do much the same. We don't know what Adam and Eve looked like when God walked with them in the Garden of Eden. We don't know what God looked like then, nor can we see Him now. So, why then do we see God's throne as some piece of furniture, as in, the best chair you may imagine is what God's throne must look like?

Paul tells us that we see poorly, as in a bad mirror. We often take what we see so poorly, and make some all-encompassing, live-daily-by-it statement (which we then adjust over the years as we learn and grow). Jesus told us to make no judgments. Here we go again. Jesus summarized and totaled the Law and the prophets in two little commands: Love the Lord your God with all of your heart, mind, soul, and strength. And, equally as important, love your neighbor as yourself. Working on those two commands is probably more than we can handle. We will need the strength, courage, and authority of Jesus to make some headway in loving like that. Perhaps, just maybe, we will see the seat of God's power is His great love. The more we love, the more we become like Him. My mind is trying to see a big chair made out of love, but it's having trouble with that. Looks like I need to come closer to my Lord.

Have a wonderful week in Christ!
Bucky