Having a holiday at any time is usually a real challenge to our Christian walk, a holiday this long … hmmm! We’re out of routine, nothing is quite the same, and every excuse in the world not to pray or read our Bibles or to meet with other Christians … and with no accountability, no one would ever know. When we return no one will ask about that anyway, all the holiday stories are far more intriguing than a story about how we went with Jesus. The spiritual danger we’ve potentially put ourselves in is significant.
On the other hand there is a great opportunity before us in this same area: Family time with no one else around to disturb our discipling of one another; & what about all those times in the Bible when God pulled his people aside from the normal situations of life, for a significant period of time, to teach them knew things about following him (Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Moses and their families; individuals like Samuel, David, Elijah; the nation of Israel on numerous occasions; Jesus and the disciples always heading off on wilderness expeditions with teaching in mind; Paul & John just to name a few)!
So then, which will it be for us?
A holiday from Jesus … or … a holiday full of Jesus?
Michael
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