So I’m sitting here very early on a Monday morning pondering the word store. It’s our Five minute Friday word of the week and I’ve been too tired to consider it all weekend. I missed it last week and may at some point right a post for the word turn. But today, today let’s ponder the word Store. I got to thinking about a sermon yesterday and how within the pages of the bible there is stored up treasure. Sometimes we need help to find that treasure you know?
Why am I up so early? I have work today and a lad who stayed up most of the night. Studying, preparing, doing the whole school thing, and realizing too late that his mom is a light sleeper. The bag under my eyes have grown rather large. I asked him this morning to do some problem solving into how he can stay up if he needs to, and yet allow me to get the rest I need because this situation isn’t tenable.
Stored up treasure
Yesterday’s sermon in church was on
2 Corinthians 4:1-6. Pastor spoke on how
God is the light and the
‘god of this age’ is a master manipulator
and closes off the eyes of the mind.
When he does so, people can’t see truth,
they can’t see the glory of God that
is in everything surrounding them, hence
they truly live in darkness.
a darkness built on deception.
And yet God
God is the light
the very glory we see about us
in the smallest of things, and
in the biggest of things.
So Paul when he preached to the people
wasn’t worried about if his message
would reach people.
He knew that God could reach into
the darkest of souls (after all,
God completely changed Paul’s life)
so he did what he was supposed to do.
He preached Christ and him crucified.
He preached God and his gloriousness.
A heart comforted
And so I sat there in silence
munching on my mix I bring to help me
keep focused.
and my mother’s heart was comforted.
I so want my boy to see the truth of
who God is. To worry constantly for his
eternal future no longer.
But God took Paul.
And man who sincerely thought he was right
a brilliant man (by my reckoning at least)
and completely turned him around.
So like Paul, I need to worry less.
Fussing will get me no where but resentful
of God for not hurrying things along.
I just need to do my part.
Read books to help him think.
Postulate questions that even if he shuts
me down might sit in his brain a bit.
and pray, to pray fervently, through scripture,
through the prayers of the faithful, and through
a mom’s observations into the life of her young man.
And perhaps, just perhaps if I do that.
My internal fretting will ease, and
perhaps my son might have that light of God start
to seep back into his life, just a bit more.
So when they talk about the
stored up treasure in the bible,
sometimes you just need a person of God
to remind you of the light that God is.
and that light, always, always dispels darkness
and deception can’t hide forever.
Deception doesn’t win.
And God would speak
2 Corinthians 4:1-6
Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart. 2 But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God. 3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. 4 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 5 For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. 6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
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