Gambling with fake money…
Yesterday we had our semi-annual company-wide meeting at work. A morning full of long — detail oriented presentations about finance, development, marketing, and more. What a bore (I’m a poet and didn’t know it). So after our long morning of meetings and catering… they had a nice afternoon planned.
UPS hired an entertainment company to come in and set up a casino in a large tent next to our meeting room. We each got 25,000.00 of UPS bucks to play with. Black jack, hold ‘em, craps, roulette, and more. What fun! We didn’t even have to lose any money.
The coolest part about it was, for every 10,000 we ended up with, we got tickets issued to enter in drawings for prizes.
I’m not a very good gambler, so, after the first 25,000.00 was gone there was a man walking around with more green to hand out.
totally free.
even if you blew yours.
he keeps you in the game.
What a great comparison to God. There were plenty of people wandering around after they blew their money and all they did was watch others play and win, and continue to play. But… there was a man giving out more money!
So often we find ourselves wandering around on empty. Watching others enjoy abundance, when we can have our own the whole time.
You. just. have. to. ask.
God has the amazing ability to refresh and restore our lives by simply asking. So why do we choose to wander around and get nothing and just wait for the game to start over. He just so happens to be wandering in our midst waiting for people to ask.
Stay in the game. Just ask God, he gives it. We just forget to ask sometimes.
What do YOU do?
For the last few weeks life has been a little crazy with the new baby, Nichole being in and out of the hospital, holidays, church, etc. I wouldn’t call it a bad crazy (except for the hospital part), but it’s just been busy. I’ve had that feeling that we are all too familiar with, how do I get connected to God?
I’ve attended church, but when you have a baby that wants to randomly yell and throw food it can be a bit distrac… wait… it can be VERY distracting. Through these last few weeks the point has been proven to me stronger than ever, church is not where your relationship with God grows and becomes real. That has to happen at home.
Church is where we worship and strengthen the community of believers, but with a lack of personal devotion time, there is no depth…
What’s so awesome about God is that he’s a gracious God, he gives back more than we put in (way more). Here’s what I mean… last night I ran downstairs to put my clothes for work in the dryer at about 11:30 PM. I had already been to church, even though spending much of the time in the hallway with London; and yet I was still empty.
As my pants were in the dryer I took five minutes and sat down at my keyboard and began to play the old simple song “Surround Me” (This is where God starts giving back more than I give), and God began to refresh me sitting right there. Did I cry? No. Did I interceed? No. But I felt the overwhelming comfort of God’s presence around me, and it’s exactly what I needed at the time, and God understands that.
God knows where we are. I’ve heard that statement over the years and it made some sense, but last night, in a basement filled with boxes, and laundry, and a/c units that cost a lot of money to fix every other month… God met me; and it made a lot of sense.
My question (since this is supposed to be a conversational blog), what do you do?
