Last month my wife and I rented a house by the
beach. Our kids and their families joined us. We had an awful lot of fun.
My two grand-daughters are 3 and 5 years old. There were times when the adults wanted to just sit and rest by the ocean, but the kids needed constant supervision. Without someone watching them, they would wander into the water, wander down the beach or play with the crabs.
My two grand-daughters are 3 and 5 years old. There were times when the adults wanted to just sit and rest by the ocean, but the kids needed constant supervision. Without someone watching them, they would wander into the water, wander down the beach or play with the crabs.
Telling them not to do these things was fruitless.
However, digging a hole in the sand, letting it fill up with water and telling
them to play in the hole amused them. They spent several hours playing
in a hole, doing what I wanted, not doing what they wanted.
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| Playing in the Hole |
Today’s reading is Galatians 5:16-26. Some
Christians in Galatia believed that because Jesus died for their sins, they had
free reign to do as they please. Paul is reminding the Galatians that if they
are in the Spirit, then they should live in accordance to the Spirit. A Christian should not live a life of
constantly succumbing to desires of the flesh.
The 10 Commandments tell us what we are not to do.
(Okay, they tell us to honor our parents and worship God.) But what are we to
do?
If we live in the Spirit, then we do what Jesus
Christ did. We love God and we love our neighbor as ourselves. We make
disciples of people, and we teach them the Word of God.
When we do these things, we live in the Spirit. We
don’t have to worry about breaking the Ten Commandments.
When we do these things, we don’t do what we want
to do. Rather, we do what God wants.
God wants us to play in the hole.
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