There’s a misconception going around that living a Christian life is boring. I don’t know where it actually came from but I’m pretty sure that it ultimately came from the father of lies himself- satan. (You small letter, you!) I was just discussing this with a friend yesterday as we were on the way to the movies (MI4 rocks! We were just able to see it now because of the MMFF moratorium on Hollywood movies during the yuletide season). We watch movies, we read books, we dance, we sing, we listen to music, we socialize. Boring? NOT!
“Are you bored?” I am honestly asking myself this question even now as I write this reflection. Answer? Definitely not!
I know so many Christian friends who are living the Christian life who are very far from anybody’s definition of boring. I’m very sure of this because I can’t stand boring people let alone be friends with them.
A bird probably thinks that a fish’s life is boring because all that the latter does is swim. But the opposite refractive truth goes as well- a fish thinks that a bird’s life is boring because all it does is fly. Meaning, just because what another person does is different from what you do, it does not mean that it’s boring.
The truth is that biblical Christians have chosen to live a consecrated life. We believe that there’s more to life than what most people think it is. In the same way that a partyphile looks forward to next Friday’s night-out, we also look forward to what God has in store for us for the next day. We just don’t happen to sleep with a hang-over but instead pray and read the bible. Biblical Christians have just realized that we don’t need anything else to enjoy life- God’s grace is sufficient. Other people just prefer to fill a certain void with whatever they think will fill it up for the meantime... and then fill it up again with another thing, and again with another gimmick, and again with retail therapy. Hmmm…who’s manifesting boredom now?
Haters, you may laugh at us because we’re different but we cry for you because you’re going to hell (There, I’ve said it!) Everyone spends eternity somewhere and what biblical Christians are doing right now are the things that we’re going to do in heaven FOREVER. We’re not the least bored about it and in fact, we derive pleasure from it because we think that it’s a dry-run for heaven. No offense, but I think that what you’re doing right now is not what heaven is all about and you just might be doing a dry-run for somewhere else.
God is a gentleman my friend. He not will insist that you enter the pearly gates because, well, you might find it boring in there.
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