Yesterday afternoon my eight year old son Jakob came up to me with a piece of white wrapping paper with scribbling all over it. He also had a deck of Uno cards and a pair of dice. He asks me, "Wanna play a new game I made"
I said sure. What he did was sit down and create a game that is a cross between Monopoly©, Uno©, and Chutes and Ladders©. Suffice it to say I played and was quite impressed. It still had a few kinks in the game because he had in his mind what the rules were when he created it but as the game progressed, (I was losing), he felt sorry for me and wanted to give me a break by changing the rules to help me progress. I told him how much I enjoyed playing and that if the rules were the way he made them then I would play by them win or lose and enjoy the game.
I think we do that in our lives. Life is not a game but we could visualize it like a game. We are going around a board, winning money, back tracking, even going to jail and in life there is no get out of jail card. We want to try and change the rules, even ignoring the rules that are written down for us, (The Bible). Not completely changing them but tweaking them to suit us and make us feel like we are not losing, even tweaking them to make it look like we are winning.
God did not intend the "rule book" to be about making sure we keep the rules, in fact we cannot always keep the rules. The rule books tells us that we are to try and keep the rules but when we don’t we have a referee who comes to our aid to help us. It is God’s Word that is there as a rule book to guide us, teach us, and help us in life. The boundaries it brings are safety features to keep us on the right track and when we get off the right track it is not the "Rule Book" that ultimately saves us. It is the Creator of the "game", the Creator of our life, who using the rule book gives us encouragement even when we are losing, so we do not lose heart and especially when we are winning not too lose sight of what the goal of the game is, to bring glory to the Creator of the game, the Creator of life.
I ended up losing, caught in a loop of a slide taking me back to the start of the game, but I am excited to see the incredible imagination and creativeness of my son. I am even more thankful for his game reminding me of the Creator of my game, my life and it makes me thankful for His Son, Jesus Christ who when we trust by faith we: "No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us." Romans 8:37 (NLT)
I said sure. What he did was sit down and create a game that is a cross between Monopoly©, Uno©, and Chutes and Ladders©. Suffice it to say I played and was quite impressed. It still had a few kinks in the game because he had in his mind what the rules were when he created it but as the game progressed, (I was losing), he felt sorry for me and wanted to give me a break by changing the rules to help me progress. I told him how much I enjoyed playing and that if the rules were the way he made them then I would play by them win or lose and enjoy the game.
I think we do that in our lives. Life is not a game but we could visualize it like a game. We are going around a board, winning money, back tracking, even going to jail and in life there is no get out of jail card. We want to try and change the rules, even ignoring the rules that are written down for us, (The Bible). Not completely changing them but tweaking them to suit us and make us feel like we are not losing, even tweaking them to make it look like we are winning.
God did not intend the "rule book" to be about making sure we keep the rules, in fact we cannot always keep the rules. The rule books tells us that we are to try and keep the rules but when we don’t we have a referee who comes to our aid to help us. It is God’s Word that is there as a rule book to guide us, teach us, and help us in life. The boundaries it brings are safety features to keep us on the right track and when we get off the right track it is not the "Rule Book" that ultimately saves us. It is the Creator of the "game", the Creator of our life, who using the rule book gives us encouragement even when we are losing, so we do not lose heart and especially when we are winning not too lose sight of what the goal of the game is, to bring glory to the Creator of the game, the Creator of life.
I ended up losing, caught in a loop of a slide taking me back to the start of the game, but I am excited to see the incredible imagination and creativeness of my son. I am even more thankful for his game reminding me of the Creator of my game, my life and it makes me thankful for His Son, Jesus Christ who when we trust by faith we: "No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us." Romans 8:37 (NLT)
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