Is it part of our DNA?

John 1: 6-13

Back in the old days, when I worked for money I often heard people say, where did this day go, or the week or month flew by?  Now, I still work and often it’s doing something important like cleaning the house for Jan or working in the garden so we can enjoy fresh vegetables, but I’ve noticed that the day, week, and month seems to take wing and are gone.  For many of us we are too busy to notice the blessings God has sent to us, blessings like flowers, birds, grandchildren, friends, and often your wife or husband.  So I wonder is that unique to our time, our culture, or is it just a people problem? 

I’ve come to this conclusion, it is in our DNA and God has been sending special people to us from the beginning to tell us to stop and listen, to be still, and see or hear and act on the blessings that He sends.  Such a man was John the Baptist, and this is what John 1:6-8 says, ^“There was a man sent from God whose name was John. ⁷ He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. ⁸ He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.” 

Could it be that the people of Johns day were much like us too busy being busy, that they missed out on the greatest gift our Father has ever given, much greater than any of the wonders of this world, greater than anything you place value on.  Being busy may have caused many to ignore the giver of life.  John 1:9, “The true light, which enlightens everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.”  Creator God took on flesh, that is what John tells us in chapter 1, verse 14, “The Word became flesh and lived for a while among us.  We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.”

I do not believe it is possible to see clearly or understand the feelings of Jesus, but from a Bob’s view, if I had been the Creator, and you chose to leave my paradisiacal garden, and later I sent Moses to lead you to the promise land.   Now I’ve come to buy you back out of sin and your too busy to notice me, you would have been toast, I’m returning to glory to be worshipped, no cross, no forgiveness, but thank God, we are not God.  John 1:11-13, “He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.  But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born not of blood nor of the will of flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.”

If you are too busy being busy, stop look and listen, and ask God to reveal His plan for you, it a good plan.  If you, like the people of Johns time, have not received Jesus, will you ask Jesus to give you ears to hear and eyes to see what the Spirit of God has for you in Christ?

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice