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You’re Not The Boss of Me
Ok, so Alan asked me to write for Feed One Another and I drew these versus. I read them immediately. The first thing that jumped into my mind was the song by They Must Be Giants, “You’re Not The Boss Of Me,” the theme song to the TV show, “Malcolm In the Middle,”
In my mind I could see a music video of these Jewish priests, teachers, and leaders all in this choreographed music video of the song and singing it to/at Jesus shortly after he had driven the money changers and thieves from the temple. I have a vivid imagination.
This must be God speaking right? I confess, beyond the chorus I didn’t have a clue what the song was actually about. I never actually watched the TV show even. So I pulled up the lyrics on the internet. And there it was! Pretty much the attitude of the priests, teachers, and leaders set to a TV Theme Song!
“Life is a test, and I confess
I like this mess I’ve made so far
Grade on a curve and you’ll observe
I’m right below the horizon
Yes, no, maybe, I don’t know
Can you repeat the question?
You’re not the boss of me now
You’re not the boss of me now
You’re not the boss of me now, and you’re not so big”
I remember my first experience with “the curve” in my first Freshman Calculus class at Georgia Tech. I had never failed a test in my life. At my first calculus test, it was beginning to look like that streak was coming to an end. I scored a 33. As it turned out, it was a D+ on “The Curve.”
Well, Drop Day rolled around. I realized that everyone that scored lower than me the previous two weeks would probably be dropping. I had enough math sense to realize that now my grades would become big fat F’s based on the new standard. I dropped too and made a B next quarter.
It seems the priests, teachers, and leaders were quite content with the “tests” they had set up for themselves and everyone else for that matter. They wrote the tests and interpreted the results and set their own “curve.”
By our very sin nature we are all going to fail the tests straight up. However, the priests were quite adept at keeping everyone in class so that based on “The Curve” that they had set…they were going to stay at the top of it.
The problem was that this new Rabbi had come in with a new interpretation of the results of the tests. He was setting a new standard. And by this standard they were not measuring up quite as well.
“He’s not the Boss of Me!”
If you are going to pass this test He is.
But that’s OK. He gives “Word” for all life’s tests.
OK. I am not sure if “Word” is just at Tech thing, but it is essentially the answers to all the tests. And you don’t even have to be a member of a cool Greek Fraternity to get access to “Word!”
Everyone gets invited to pledge His Fraternity!
How hard it is for me to let God be the boss. I often stay so busy planning, preparing, grasping for what seems best in my own eyes that I don’t even take time to listen to what God is saying, much less taking the steps that He, my boss, instructs me to take. Recently I talked with a man who said he used to go to Church but he had gotten away from it. We had a short discussion and God must have given me the right words to say to him because several days later he told me that he had talked with his uncle who had been a minister for 30 years. He said his uncle told him to go “left”. When I asked what that meant he said, “There is a way that seems right to man, so go left – walk in faith.”