It takes an hour to go to your favorite restaurant and enjoy a good meal. It takes three and a half hours to watch a football game. It takes eight hours to drive from Birmingham to Disney World. It takes two to six weeks to receive your income tax refund.
It takes thirty seconds to pull out your phone and text someone that you’re thinking about them.
The Bible is like butter for your soul. Have you noticed everything gets better when you add butter? Butter in your scrambled eggs, butter in your oatmeal, butter in your cake mix, in your cookies, on your toast, around your muffin, across your corn-on-the-cob. Butter adds substance, wholesomeness and a pleasant taste to your food.
Reading the Bible every day can be the butter for your soul. Spread it on thick.
You’re sitting peacefully in a car. The car is travelling down the freeway at a speed of 70 miles per hour. Are you in motion, or are you at rest?
There is no absolute answer to this question. The answer is relative to the position of the observer. To the driver of the car sitting next to you, you are at rest. To a pedestrian on the side of the road you are in motion.
Many of our observations about life are relative. God’s word is not. It is absolute. Always right. Never changing.
You can hate cancer. Hate racism. Hate ignorance. Hate poverty. Hate cruelty. Hate injustice. Hate earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, and wild fires. Hate random violence. Hate loneliness and depression.
But don’t hate people. People are the tools God has to work with to overcome and survive all of the above.
Waking up this morning is the most wonderful blessing of your day. 150,000 people passed away yesterday. 150,000 more will do so today. You are not one of them. You get this day to live, to enjoy, to laugh, to inspire, to dream, to encourage, to share.
And to love. Love somebody today. God allowed you to open your eyes and get out of bed. There must be a reason for it.
God is like gravity. If you take a pencil, hold it in the air, and then release it, which direction will it travel? Of course, you know it will drop straight down to the floor. But how do you know that? You know it because you know about gravity.
You’ve never seen it. You can’t accurately describe it. You probably don’t really understand it. But without a doubt you trust it is there. Because it’s always there. It never goes away.
God is like gravity.
