CAN YOU CAST A SHADOW WITHOUT THE SUN?

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Once upon a time a tribe of very isolated people with little knowledge of anything in the modern world received a sundial.

It was a gift from friends in the outer world and they were supremely joyous when it arrived. They shouted with glee, beat upon their drums and danced long into the night. And then they made a decision, “Let us treat this present with the respect it is due. Let us build a shelter to keep it in.”

So they did.

They built a hut, a great tremendous, overwhelming hut, taller than any other hut in the entire village. Then within the hut they built a throne upon which they put the sundial and then began to treat it with great and overwhelming respect and honor. And very soon, very soon, they realized that the sundial no longer worked.

With no sun in the secluded, shadowed shelter of the hut, it did not work.

“Seek ye first the kingdom of God…” Seek it in the sunlight where all can see. Seek it with such enthusiasm you leave yourself wide open for spiritual serendipities.

All manner of things happen in life and you cannot know what they will be, but if you seek first the kingdom of God…first and foremost…well, let’s put it this way, “Men are often spiritual failures not because they are spiritually stupid but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.” (rewrite of statement by Struthers Bart)

The book of Proverbs puts it this way: (Proverbs 29:18) “Where there is no vision the people perish.”

The Prodigal Son prayed a prayer that should be a challenge to everyone who reads or hears it. “Make me even as a hired servant. Make me anything but what I was.”

Would you have an ongoing Spiritual Serendipity that offers one agreeable accident after another? I believe I have said this once or twice in the last few minutes,
“Seek ye first the Kingdom of God…”

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