So what would I say if I could take
over Pastor Bobby's Blog for one day. Uhhhhhhh, absolutely nothing.
This is Steve your humble church
soundman, at least that is the role most of you see me play on any
given Sunday. Those of you who know me know I am quite comfortable
in the background. I usually only get attention when I screw up, so
I try to avoid that. I'm not sure why Pastor Bobby thinks you care
about what I have to say. I mean if you want to talk about politics
or audio stuff I am your man. But to talk about myself?
People ask me what I do at Harvest, I
still don't have a short answer for that. I am the soundman,
roadie, truck driver, cameraman, lighting guy, drum-keyboard-guitar
amp-blownspeaker repair guy (lots of that lately), garbage man,
purchasing dept, setup-teardown, recording engineer, plumber
thewaittilleverybodygoeshomesoIcanlockupthebuilding guy, the
completely clueless IT guy, amateur electrician, I move a lot of
chairs and tables around, and apparently I am also expected to be a
talented writer.
I've been married for 8 years to a
beautiful girl named Sherry and we have a cute little three year old
girl, Abigail. Sherry is an RN at Sacred heart ER, I am very proud of
what she does and how hard she works. Abigail is quite proficient at
doing flips, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, and has every word of
Cinderella memorized. Also, we have a chihuahua/jack russell puppy
dog named Bentley. By the way, the picture up there is of us at
Disney. Please be praying for Sherry's Disney addiction.
So I guess on these blog things you are
supposed to say something really deep and stuff. I hope you will
forgive me if I can't live up to the profundity(that will be $10
please) of the rest of the staff.
So here it is, are you ready???
You should live a balanced life
OK, so before you think I going all Yen
and Yang on you here, calm down. I think Fung Shui is stupid. The
idea here is that when you find your self unbalanced to one extreme
in some area of your life, there is often an idol involved. It could
possibly even be American Idol (har har). The balanced life idea
does not work for everything. I mean you can't seek God to much or be
too sinless or whatever but hear me out.
Some (rather blatant)examples:
One man has a $700 car payment, the
other never changes his oil
One man is a workaholic, the other
lives on handouts
One woman must marry a doctor, the
other marries a drunk
One man eats out every meal, the other
won't take his wife on a date
One woman vomits to be skinny, the
other lets herself go (ouch)
One church ignores open sin in
leadership, the other hasn't had a visitor in 3 years
One Soundman runs way too loud, and the
other.......Can't blog very well
Do you see what I'm getting at here,
well ok so most of you do not deal with issues quite that blatant but
I wanted to make the point. I think its wise to step back on occasion
and take the helicopter tour of your life and make sure your
priorities aren't out of whack or worse, that you have allowed a
habitual sin to replace God in your heart. Wow this is getting kind
of heavy, maybe I should have talked about how fun it is to work for
Pastor Bobby and what a privilege it is to write on his blog.
The Bible does not really speak
directly to living a “balanced” life but it does give us
“contradictions” to work with. Consider Mary and Martha in Luke
10. Martha is all freaking out about making dinner and getting the
house ready, and Mary is just hangin' with Jesus, and Martha tells
Jesus to tell Mary to help her, and Jesus is like, “its cool
Martha, let her chill with me” (slightly paraphrased).
But then look at Matthew 24:42. Jesus
is telling us to be vigilant and to prepare for his return and the
end times and all that stuff. So do we not ever prepare and just
trust in Jesus? or do we always make sure we obsess about every
possible scenario that could come our way? Well there is a balance
there. Don't allow yourself to be filled with worry, but seek God
about how to be prudent and prepare.
Or remember all those Proverbs about
how bad drinking is and how it leads to death and all, and then Jesus
goes and turns water into some really tasty wine at a wedding where
everyone is already drunk. So where is the balance there? Well its
quite simple, if you want to know just ask Pastor Bobby.
Please don't look my way if you want to
see a perfectly balanced Christian. I chose to write about this
because I must deal with it daily like everyone else. My list of
deficiencies is probably almost as long as yours. But lacking as I
am, I would like to ask you to take some time to think and pray about
areas in your life that may seem harmless or even righteous, but may
in fact be idols getting in the way of Gods best for you.
By the way there is this little
competition going to see who gets the most responses on the blog so
please respond with how great or stupid you think my post is so I can
beat the rest of the staff and especially Pastor Bobby.
Thanks,
Steve
