I continue to be amazed by students. Just when I think I have seen it all, something new occurs. We started our summer graduate program this morning for teachers working on their masters’ degrees. One young lady tried to register for two classes that were running simultaneously. Her rationale was that since the courses were in classrooms across the hall from each other she could during the day keep moving back and forth from lecture to lecture. After all she was a smart lady. This is somewhat like chess masters who play several opponents at the same time. I will not mention the personal slight to the professors. It is like a student, who had been absent, coming and saying, “Did I miss anything.” I always want to respond with, “No, we napped while you were gone.”
She reminded me of Christians who think they are smart enough to follow Christ and yet take mini-vacations into places they know they should not be. They can go to church on the weekends and still spend time in relationships that should not be. Jesus said it so well in the Sermon on the Mount. “No one can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
While it is true that salvation is a gift, it is also true that one really can’t keep giving it back on Monday only to take it again on Friday evening. It isn’t that God isn’t patient with us. It is all about our ability or should I say lack of ability to tap into heaven’s resources with such a divided mind
Written by Roger Bothwell on June 28, 2011
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