“Faith is not in a floor plan”
When asked by Reverend Russell what he was doing sitting in
a corner, Simon replied he was thinking about God. “In a corner,” Reverend Russell was
skeptical. Simon set him straight.
I’m sitting at my dining room table right now looking out my
window at some awesome New Hampshire fall foliage. Somehow, I’m able to see God’s hand on the
universe right now much more than I do sitting in church on Sunday. Faith truly doesn’t have a floor plan.
“I don’t know. Sex
makes people crazy.”
Simon’s reply to Reverend Russell when asked about why Simon
caused the Christmas Pageant catastrophe was truly honest. From Adam and Eve to father Abraham to King
David to us, sex has consistently made us crazy. If you don’t believe it, just watch TV for a
night and pay attention to how advertisers try to sell you things. At times in each of our lives, as much as we
don’t want to admit it, sex comes before God.
“If God's made the church bake sale a priority, we're in a
lot of trouble.”
I have a continual struggle with the relationship of our
current churches and the word of God.
Sometimes, I totally believe that it is so important that the believers
meet in one place to publically worship.
Other times I’m just like Simon Birch and the endless announcements and
plans talked about in church that have nothing to do with God drive me
bananas. I just want a place to come with
fellow Christians and worship God; maybe that can’t happen without church bake
sales, but I hope not.
“I want to know that there's a reason for things. I used to
be certain, but now I'm not so sure. I want you to tell me that God has a plan
for me, a plan for all of us.”
Christ is the only person who has ever lived that didn’t
have any doubt about God’s plan for him; the rest of us can only wonder. Sometimes we catch a glimmer of God’s plan
when we find out something we did years ago actually truly affected someone’s
life in their quest for God. Most of the
time we throw bread out on the water and never know what happens to it. The only thing we can be sure of is that in
the end God wins.
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