Have you seen the TV commercial* with
the beagle that lives inside a tube? It’s
a commercial advertising heartworm medicine and makes the advertising claim
that the best way to protect your dog from fleas and heartworms is to either
live in a sealed bubble-like tube, insulated from the world or give your dog their
daily meds. Strange isn’t it that a dog would live in a plastic tube! In fact
it’s downright preposterous! Dogs, especially beagles, aren’t designed to live
in a plastic tube. They are designed to chase rabbits through brambles, dig
under fences, wake the neighborhood while they howl at the moon and lick the
chocolate off their human’s face.
Dogs aren’t designed to live in a
bubble and neither are Christians. Yet so often I see Christians hide in
plastic bubbles to keep from interacting with the world. I’ve done it myself and cringe at my
foolishness and lack of love and faith. Sometimes
Christians even build these insulating tubes to keep from being tarnished by
each other. If it wasn’t so sad, it would be just ridiculously funny. Christian,
we follow a God that left the “bubble” of heaven to live among his creation, to
sleep without a pillow or a house to call his own, to live with those that
would hate him, to love on those that would kill him, to die that we would
live. Doesn’t that seem a long way from the bubbles that we create? Do we
really believe that someone that does not trust Jesus would want to step into
our sterile bubbles? Jesus didn’t come to live in a bubble. He came to live
with man. And he calls us to follow him. Follow. Jesus.
Christian, go chase rabbits, dig
dirt, wake the neighbors and lick the chocolate! (maybe scratch that last one
;) ) Get out of your bubble and live
life as God has designed you to live it – in the world.
By grace,
Harrison
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