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Oct 3, 2012
Have you ever asked a
teenage check-out girl at a convenience store for directions? I did recently
and it went something like this:
“You like, go down
this way and like, no wait. Let me think. You can go that way and. . .I don’t
know, like I haven’t been there in ages. Wait a minute, now I remember,” she
flapped her hands erratically around her head. “You don’t turn, just like, go
straight until you see this old building.” She stopped and stared at me, as if
to discern my ability to comprehend.
“Which old building?”
I asked.
“You know.”
“If I knew, I
wouldn’t be asking.”
“But, like, everyone
knows that one,” she said with a huff and an Olympic 10.0 roll of the eyes.
Defeated, I walked
out and spied an older gentleman in worn denim jeans and work boots. He leaned
against a faded blue pickup truck, filling it with gas. I asked him for
directions. He pointed down the street and said:
“Two blocks down,
take a left, and it’s half a mile past the fire station.”
Simple. Clear.
Helpful.
The ways of the Lord
are impossible for us to understand. His ways are higher than ours ways in all
ways. So Christ made it simple. He pared down His sacrifice and gift of
redemption into something our finite minds could comprehend. Bread and drink.
We understand that without bread and drink we can’t survive. His body, His
blood. . .without these we can’t survive for eternity. What a simple way to
explain the unexplainable.
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2 comments:
So appreciate your article this morning. It's a great reminder and good timing. Some days, I wake up with a very complicated view of life. With God, I don't have to go down that road or if I do, He goes with me and makes it simple. :-)
Glad you found this encouraging. That God would make things so simple for us is incredible...considering how difficult we make things for each other.
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