A few years ago when I moved to Wisconsin it seemed like
Packer Fever was a contagious disease, you could hardly go anywhere without being
surrounded by people sporting green and gold.
This is Wisconsin and the Packers are dearly loved but it seems that the
shine of that super bowl year is wearing off.
It is not that the Packers are a bad team they may even be just as good
at doing what they did the year they went to the Super Bowl. But is seems the other teams have adjusted
their defense to keep the Packers passing game better under control. But in a few short years, I see more and more
shirts and sweatshirts with other team logos and colors. I even saw Wisconsin license plates that said
“MN VIKES.” I know insanity right?
It is amazing how fickle of fans we
can be. But, moving beyond football it
is surprising how quickly we fall away and our passions sway. Our team does not perform as well as they
once did, or our dream job becomes a nightmare.
The love of our life becomes the enemy we hate. Why is it that people are so prone to these
swings in our loyalties? Why do our
minds become so caught up with the negatives we see rather than the positives
that won our hearts in the first place?
Just think the Apple IPad was first
went on the market in April 2010. They
release their 3rd model in March of this year. How can a company keep releasing updates of
the same product so close together? People just won’t keep buying the same thing
over and over again, right? Especially
when 84 million of the first 2 version of IPad’s were already in consumers hands? But in just the first 4 day the IPad 3 was in
stores Apple sold 3 million, That is 3
million in 4 days. Apple just released the
IPhone 5 and already sold 5 million IPhones in the first weekend.
In the book of Hosea in the Bible,
God uses Hosea’s marriage to an adulterous wife to illustrate the way Israel
had treated God. But our fickleness
seems to be equal to the nation of Israel, it seems weekly on the news our
nation is making it stand against God. But
it is not just our nation it is the hearts of the people, as the greater majority
of people turn from God the quicker our nation is going to turn as well. Read the book of Hosea I think you would find
many things that reflected the world we live in today.
Is there a solution? I think the big answer is we have to stop
being so interested in seeking what we want, to be honest it seems like we do
not know what we want! We have to seek
after what God wants us to seek after.
Matthew 6:31-33 - So do not worry, saying, ‘What
shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these
things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his
kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as
well.
I do
not believe this means that if you follow Jesus you will be the first in line
for the new IWhatever. But it means that
when we are seeking what God wants, we will learn to be satisfied when God
meets our needs. God changes our priorities
to be in line with His, His wants become our wants, His values become our
values. God paves the streets of heaven with gold not
to show his earthly wealth but to demonstrate how our value system is so much
different from His values system. What
would your life look like if your value system mirrored God? What worries would you be able to live
without? Maybe we should stop trying to
figure out what we want and trust that God knows what we need.
