In the last few months, a
new exclamation has come forth from my lips:
the word, SERIOUSLY! Now that
could be seriously? (like “ did you really mean that? “ or “
that’s the look you were going for ??!! “ ) or I use it when I’m making a point
or trying to convince someone, like,
“no, I mean it, seriously!”.
I can’t figure out when I
started this new “habit” or even how to stop it. I’m just glad it isn’t a new swear word
(!). Sometimes I pick up words that
those I live with or “hang” with say.
Like, “whatever” or “totally” or “SWEET!”. You get the picture – a slang word of sorts,
an exclamation. But seriously, (!) where
did this come from?
NO CLUE. I say its “interesting” because IT has
entered into my prayer life – seriously.
Okay, I’ll stop now . . . . (maybe not).
J
Does God need a
“seriously” in my prayers? I’m thinking
He knows my heart and knows how “serious” I am about them. In fact, I have scripture to back that one
up: (PSALM 44)
If we had forgotten the name of our God
or spread out
our hands to a foreign god,
would not God have discovered it,
since He knows
the secrets of the heart?
So, He knows I’m
serious. PLUS I’m thinking God is
ALWAYS serious. The definition of
serious is “somber, humorless”. The
opposite of serious is “flippant, happy, funny, light”. Wait, God is light and He is also NOT humorless, don’t you think?
I’m thinking what He did
to Jonah could be thought of as “flippant” or “funny” – I mean yes, it had
serious consequences, but being swallowed by a whale ????? – who thinks of that
stuff? Oh yeah !!
What about the story about
the guy who was riding on a donkey and the donkey kept going his own way because
an angel was leading it and the guy didn’t know it and wait, I’ll find it in
Scripture. Its in Numbers 22. (GOTTA
LOVE BIBLEGATEWAY.COM) And the guy’s
name is Balaam.
Then
the angel of the Lord moved on ahead and stood in a narrow place where there
was no room to turn, either to the right or to the left. When the donkey saw
the angel of the Lord, she lay down under Balaam, and he was angry and beat her
with his staff. Then the Lord opened the donkey’s mouth, and she said to
Balaam, “What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?”
Balaam
answered the donkey, “You have made a fool of me! If I had a sword in my hand,
I would kill you right now.”
The
donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your own donkey, which you have always ridden,
to this day? Have I been in the habit of doing this to you?” “No,” he said.
Then
the Lord opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the
road with his sword drawn. So he bowed low and fell facedown.
Now that I read the story,
it’s not THAT funny – but whatever.
Someone stop me – PLEASE!
Anyway, this new “habit”
of mine makes me hesitate, as soon as I say “seriously” to God, putting a smile on my
face, and has me contemplating the God of the universe, the GREAT I AM, the First and the Last, the Savior of the world,
hearing me – forgiving me - loving me – guiding me.
I just can’t stand it – seriously.
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