20 June, 2023
Don’t you just love those programs on the radio where you can unpack the simplest things, like where does an old saying come from… I remember hearing about ‘where does the saying “don’t throw the baby out with the bath water” come from… (now most moms nowadays shudder when they hear someone saying those words) and it was fascinating to hear where it comes from and how we’ve progressed as society to not treat the babies like that anymore…
Well, this morning the saying that comes to mind when I look out of my car is one I always found strange… “you can’t get too much of a good thing”… sorry… my Bible says everything must be done in moderation… where did we come up with “you can’t get too much of a good thing”? I’m not going into where the saying comes from… I’m merely pointing something out. There’s another saying that comes to mind “an idol is a good thing that has become an ultimate thing”… ooh that’s not what we like to hear is it… no… that hits too close to home, to things that we enjoy and we like them to take preference in our hearts… very quickly they chuck out the likes of spending time with God and become idols.
Let’s go back to “you can’t get too much of a good thing”… why did this come to mind… we are in our 3rd week of on and off rain here in the Western Cape and I am not complaining… I love the wet winters… I really do…I don’t miss Gauteng’s dry and dismal bone-chilling winter where everything dries and the world is brown… I need my colours to keep me happy, alive, vibrant … something like that… but, back to the rain… I went outside to investigate with my kids just exactly how many ponds and literally foot in how deep they are, in my back yard, and to my horror I found what I thought would be a bountiful crop of bright red cherry tomatoes… dead… not slightly, to the core of the plant dead… they could not handle the rain… this morning when I arrived at the school, dropped off my children, got back in my car I noticed there’s a whole aloe, huge, tall long aloe, pulled out the ground from the roots up… this is where I find myself considering, “you can’t get too much of a good thing”… isn’t accurate. Anyone would agree we need the rain…any well taught Capetonian would agree we need the rain, the posters are everywhere about how you keep your water, how you manage your water and what you don’t do with your water, it’s a constant reminder, we need the water. However, at the same time right now, there are people whose homes have flooded, some flooded away, various degrees of loss all due to the very good rain.
Consider, what are you making an idol of… I’m speaking to myself as well… whenever someone has these talks… or let me speak for myself… whenever I have these talks I am first referencing myself and then thinking, I’m sure someone else out there could benefit from this(thought bubble)
Is there anything keeping me from spending the time with the Lord I want to spend… scratch that He wants me to spend with Him… since He’s the boss… He asks me and I say no… who am I to say no to Him… ( thought bubble)
Let’s be real… my bed is comfy… 11:30 is quite late to go to bed… 5:00 quite early to get up… snooze? … so easy…
Where does that leave me and my family unprotected, unconnected and uninjected by His amazing grace and favour and love and ability for the day… so let’s get real… you can always get too much of a good thing… just because people have been saying it repetitively for many years doesn’t mean it’s true, Truth is a person and if I am to make an ultimate thing out of a good thing I will loose my opportunity to be injected with the great love of the Father to carry me through every morsel of a moment in my day that I need to breathe in ya… and out weh… in ya and out weh life itself transfusing into my every morsel of a moment… God bless enjoy your day… I could go on forever He is so great and greatly to be praised…