We are creatures of habit and love the familiar. I do not assign seats in my college classes but 90% of the time students will sit in the same chair they got the first day. When I take attendance I automatically look at the chair I associate with a particular student and am slowed down in attendance taking if someone sits on the opposite side of the room. So it was not surprising today when at Taco Bell a father and little girl entered and the little girl said, “Oh, look they are at our table.” All of the other tables were empty. There was no space problem. The problem was we were at “her” table. It also happens at church. When we enter we go to the same seat and are just a bit put off if someone new got our seat before we did. Actually I once had a church member ask a guest to move. How’s that for being friendly and welcoming?
There is a seat mentioned in Revelation 3:21, “To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.” Now there’s a seat we all should covet. The promise says it’s ours if we overcome. All right then, how do we overcome? Let’s go to John 5. Jesus said, “He that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” Don’t you just love it? Now let’s be perfectly clear about this. When we are talking about believing we are talking about allowing the Holy Spirit in to reorganize our lives after the pattern of Jesus Himself.
Written by Roger Bothwell on January 28, 2011
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