Little Boxes (CLM 757)

From: elson@us.ibm.com

Sun, 17 Jan 1999

Greetings :-) The following article [CLM 757] is very trendy, but presupposes that the affairs of our daily lives, those activities in the boxes, are NOT ordained of God. It has become fashionable to blame our fatigue on our busy schedules, but that isn't the problem. The bible tells us to redeem the time. Much of the book of Proverbs warns us against laziness. The fact is that humans were created to work, even to work six days. There is no reason to assume that our previously scheduled activities are not ordered by God, unless in fact, they aren't. There are two radically different poles to the teaching/preaching ministry and the worship ministry. One pole is to prepare everything carefully in advance and to not deviate from the plan, and the other pole is to be totally spontaneous. Now there are obviously problems with both approaches, but the point is that neither approach is per se less "led by the Spirit." Who says that the Spirit does not speak through the words of the spontaneous minister? And who says that the Spirit does not speak through the words of the careful preparer? Is one minister more able to listen than the other? Is the Spirit unable to know what He will be doing in a couple or a few weeks? No. Spontaneity is no measure of how "Spirit-led" a person is, because the Spirit can lead through those little boxes on the calander as surely as He can lead in the now. Our actual problem often isn't a too-busy schedule, but a life that is not lived in God's rest; resting from our own works in order to do God's work. Cheers.....Dale

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