June14, 2013
Avoiding Boredom
Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Phillippians 4:11-13
“I am never bored anywhere: To be bored is an insult to oneself.”
- Jules Renard
Do you ever find it intriguing or at least somewhat interesting that in a world where there are so many technological advances: so many electronic options and so much varying forms of entertainment and interactive engagement available: that we often find ourselves bored?
If you have ever spent much time around children aged seven or eight to eighteen you might find yourself a wealthy person if you had a dollar for every time they complained of boredom.
Though, adults aren’t much different: we are just usually not as vocal about it.
How many times have you found yourself bored by the television, though you keep on watching it; while you simultaneously play a game on a tablet, while texting or talking on your phone. None of your activities capture your full an undivided attention because none of them of themselves, would keep you from being bored out of your mind?
Sadly, often the same is true of our spiritual pursuits as well. If the program at church isn’t fast passed enough; captivating enough or entertaining enough, we loose interest and our mind begins to wonder. How many times have we thought that church or bible study was boring? How many times has one of our complaints for not reading the Bible more consistently been that it was too boring and it didn’t captivate our attention?
Do you ever wonder if our lack of interest and attention to the things of God might not be a testament to the idea that we find God boring?
Yet when you look at the universe, the world and even the complexity of your own anatomy: how can we ever perceive God as anything less than amazing and captivatingly interesting and intriguing?
Just the idea that His ways are so far beyond our ways and our attempts to comprehend and understand Him fall so short of the depth of His reality: we should stay engaged for years just imagining the possibilities that are God and possible with God: yet sadly we don’t.
We seem to have become a people who think we are so advanced that we often are bored even by amazing things that transcend us, because we think anything we don’t comprehend and understand is beneath us and not worthy of our time and anything mastered to easily by us is to be conquered and left behind.
We can neither comprehend nor conquer all that God is: but if we will allow ourselves we can be totally captivated by Him and boredom will never again cross our minds.
Prayer:
Father, always remind me if ever I begin to think I am bored: that in you there is always another amazing revelation and experience to be had.
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