| "What Have
You Done For Me Lately?" by Cathy
Vinson |
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A revealing look into human nature can be seen by the famous
rhetoric of the would-be baseball fan. Someone makes us happy, but not for long. We'll go
to the ends of the earth for that person, but only if they keep feeding our satisfaction.
How quickly we fade away!
Miriam had barely finished the victory song, after the crossing of the Red Sea, when
grumbling began again. "Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea...for three days they
traveled...so the people grumbled against Moses..." (Ex 15:22,24) What have you done
for me lately?
Marvelling, grief, astonishment have been experienced by leaders throughout history. They
have shared the marvel of Paul's: the quickness of unbonding.
It's one thing to grow fickle after a miracle, it's another to desert the grace of Christ.
"...whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst...indeed a spring of water
welling up to eternal life" (Jn 4:14). The drink of Christ's grace is meant to be
eternal, forever settled,
eternally enticing.
Dr. Dobbins (not Dobson) teaches that God has given each of us a fascinating mind, one
that bonds together pleasure WITH the source of that pleasure. (Negatively this is the
cause of all kinds of disorders and obsessions.) To our benefit we have been given the
capacity to bond and
rebond with God through a lifetime. The peace, security, intimacy, delight we enjoy links
us to its Source: God. We would not "quickly desert" He who has called us into
the grace of Christ.
Let us learn how to drink from the spring that wells up into MORE and MORE, and somehow to
escape the marvelling of our own contemporaries. "They keep watch over you as men who
must give account. Obey them that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would
be of no advantage to you" (Heb 13:17).
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