Honest Questions

I heard a great commercial on a Christian radio station this morning. It asked us to ponder the questions: “Why does a one-hundred dollar bill seems like way too much to put in the offering plate on Sunday morning, yet we think nothing of spending all of it when we go shopping?” “Why are we excited when a ballgame goes into overtime, yet if Sunday’s service runs long we are upset?” The questions go on and on, and you get the point. But they are good questions that deserve an honest answer. Why do we cherish front row seats at a concert, ballgame, or school program, yet we want the back pews in church? Each of these sounds like relationship questions to me…and each revolve around our relationship with our Lord. Let’s be honest, none of us would think of insulting the host when in their home, yet we cast aside the feelings of our Savior for our own selfish wants and desires. Is it that we really don’t care? Are we just too easily distracted, or are we too “of the world” instead of “in the world?” (See John 17:6-26)