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Jesus Is Like a Bowl of Cereal?
Remember that old Life Cereal commercial? You know the one…with Mikey and his brothers.
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Things were fine for these brothers every morning until Mom goes and changes things up on them and buys this new healthy cereal for breakfast. What’s all the fuss about this cereal that’s supposed to be good for me? Good for me = gross! Well, way before that commercial there was a similar scenario…except this wasn’t cereal. This was with the Messiah.
Things were fine for Herod and Pilate until Jesus came along and stirred things up. Neither found any guilt in Jesus and neither wanted the responsibility for judging him. They passed Jesus around like a political and religious “bowl of healthy cereal” not wanting to take a definitive stand on his behalf. Pilate’s preference would have been to ignore the issue altogether. All this turmoil about Jesus was becoming a threat to his control and position.
So, I have a lot of questions to ask you. Many have been asked of me. They are hard…but need to be asked of each of us. Most of the time, we have some re-evaluating to do. Ready….here we go! What do you do with Jesus? Do you make a definitive stand for Him at all times? Are there times when you prefer to toss His teachings to the farthest planet so they don’t interfere with your current “easy” life, current relationship or current activity? Do you profess Him as the guiltless Savior yet prefer He take a back seat in your life…. or parts of your life? Do you pack away certain inconvenient principles He taught into a file labeled “don’t really think this applies to me” so you can justify not applying it to your life? Why is it those things that are good for us, we avoid? For all that Jesus has done for us, he certainly doesn’t deserve this tossing around business! Why do we just pass him around or pretend to just take a little bite? Don’t we want to be like Mikey (and MORE)? He at the whole bowl! And what else? Watch the video of you still don’t know……that’s right, he liked it.
Hey Mitzi I like it. Your questions were good but hard. Why are the things that are good for us do we avoid? Right now for me it is a indepth Bible study. I don’t have time I am too tired after work to go out. I am too busy. The good Bible studies are during the day. There isn’t one around. I get fed on Sunday. These are just a few of the many answers I give to not do one. Bible study is one of those things that is good for us. If I don;t know God’s word how can I share God’s word.
Wow – you are right – that hurts a little bit. True confession, I do pass him around and put him in the center when it is easy, I put him in the closet when it is not. I pray to him but only want the answers I want, I sometimes pretend not to hear him when he is telling me to tithe more and my financial worries will be over. It is difficult sometimes to be a Christian. I keep hearing Rob Irvine’s voice in my ear telling me to rest in God, it is finished, it is done, rest in God. I hear you but am I listening?
Mitzi, thank you for sharing your heart this morn. Gives us all a lot to think about. I KNOW I put Jesus in the back seat A LOT. In situations when I have the opportunity to stand up for Him, in caring for my family (I have this one down pat!)…just like Jim shared yessterday about giving Jesus complete control of your life….that is a little scary sometimes. I need to work on this. Thanks for the reminder that He has done too much to take a back seat in my life. He deserves much, much more.
btw…not that it matters, but the above comment was from me….:-)M.A. Thanks, Mitzi.
Thanks, Mitzi. Good stuff and needed to be reminded.
As always, I love hearing what God puts on your heart and mind and how you creatively communicate it…Meredith Scott Gresham. The implied realities your questions pose are ashamedly so very true…and therefore challenging. Thanks for that my friend.
Lord help me, help me, help me…claim You, love You, and live You fully – not “more” fully, but all the way fully.