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Your Moment’s Are Yours
Intro - Thanks and story about the text for the day.
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While we were at the beach, the youth and I went through a riveting…it was riveting right?…a riveting series on drama.
That was the theme for the week.
The effect of drama on our lives, on others, on our faith.
We were dissecting, with scripture, what we are prone to do, and what we are called to do and be.
And today, we all get a little taste of that.
We all get a little taste, because whether we want to admit it or not, we all need it!
I say we need it, because if we are honest with ourselves we just love drama.
We love that tension.
We love looking at the things that someone else has and providing our own commentary on why they should or shouldn’t have that stuff.
We love digging in the dirt to find out why someone did this or that.
We play those games where we try to understand someone’s motives, or their reason for doing something, even though we don’t know the whole story.
Sometimes, we even play the betrayed friend for someone else who was hurt and then draw judgement on whomever did them wrong.
And listen, we all do it!
Even old Miss Clara from Andy Griffith did it!
There isn’t a week that goes by that either me, or someone else speaking with me, doesn’t start going down that path of comparisson.
That path of drama and sometimes gossip.
But it isn’t the gossip that I want to talk about, although that is part of it.
It isn’t the bad mouthing, or the comparisons that I want us to think about, per se.
It’s the projection.
The proliferation in our own hearts of this drama that fills our world!
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I mean you can see it everywhere right?
And not just in these older daytime soap operas - which by the way, I never knew were so popular until I went into the ministry.
I even know some guys my age that love watching these things!
But it isn’t just those shows, all of our TV experience is based off of this same type of petty dramatic tension.
And listen, as a society, we watch so much TV that those expectations bleed out into our lives!
But I really shouldn’t blame this on TV.
I mean, they are just giving us what we consume.
And we will consume it whether we watch it on TV or not!
No it isn’t TV’s fault.
You see, since the dawn of man, we have been just as, if not more, interested in the moments of others than our own!
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This vicarious comparison, a living out of our lives in respect to the lives of others, has gone on since the dawn of time.
Now part of it is biological.
I mean, if you are watching someone eating a plant they picked up from the ground, and you see them pass out, you probably aren’t going to eat it, right?
So a part of this is natural.
But spiritually speaking, it is a real problem!
We can’t allow ourselves to start down that path of comparing our moments to others, because when we do we sell short the gifts and life we have to offer!
But still we want to know about the moments of others.
I think that we want to know about them - what they are doing, and what they are saying - because in our minds, it somehow informs us of how we are to act, and what is now acceptable!
And you see that in this little story from Genesis.
Cain took his moments, and viewed them through the lens of another!
Listen, had Cain just thought to himself, “God wants more from me,” Abel wouldn’t have been killed!
But instead, Cain, by viewing his life and efforts through the lens of Abel, became jealous.
He became bitter.
He became envious.
Sin crouched at his door.
And it eventually ruled over him.
Galatians 5:19
He became a slave to the flesh.
A slave to the desires and tendencies of humans with no regard to God, or His ways.
He gave in to the primal instincts that seek to ruin us all.
Anger.
Rivalries.
Dissension.
Division.
Envy.
Those things - things that come when we live our moments through the lens of others - they aren’t from God, and aren’t what we were made for.
Galatians 5:22-
No we were made for so much more.
Because of the great sacrifice of Christ, and the gift of the Holy Spirit, we are allowed to be so much more than primal beings!
We are given access to God’s own Spirit so that we can do His work and bear those fruits in our lives!
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control.
That is our calling!
But those fruits, they don’t seem as tasty sometimes as the others, right?
Adam and Eve alone prove that out.
No we want to know about everything everyone else is doing!
We want the dirt.
We want the gossip.
We want the drama!
But what we really need to want to know is Jesus.
Everything else is useless!
We should consider it all garbage!
We should throw it all away to only know about Jesus!
I WANT TO KNOW CHRIST!
PAUL SAYS.
We need to say that too.
Of all the things we want, we need to want to know Jesus more.
And the only way you can ever really get to that point, is to stop looking around at other people, and remember this one important fact.
Your Moment’s Are Yours
Your moment’s belong only to you.
That’s it.
How many times do we overlook that idea?
Seems like it is literally every day right?
We have been convinced that if we just compare ourselves to others.
If we could only view our moments through the lens of these other perfect moments, lived out evidently by perfect people, than our lives would be all better!
If you think I am talking crazy then please, pick up your phones, which are no doubt right by your side - by the way, a sermon for another time, but do we really need to be gotten a hold of on a moments notice?
I remember, in my life party lines…anyway - but pick up your phone and unlock it and open the first app you always open at the beginning or end of the day!
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Let me help you, anyone who might be bashful, if it isn’t a game, it is probably one of those.
And when you open it, what do you see?
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You see moments.
And as you scroll, you see moment after moment.
Pictures, memories, quotes, scripture, life events, fights; you see an endless cascade of the only real “fake news” there is!
You see all these moments that aren’t yours.
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