(04/17/09)
There’s a really beautiful song by Joan Osborne called , “One of Us”. The chorus goes:
What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Tryin’ to make his way home?
The question, of course, that begs to be answered is, “What if God was one of us?” Well, what would you do? If you saw Him sitting next to you, not knowing who He really was, how would you treat Him? Would you smile and ask Him how His day was? Would you give Him bus fare if He was without change? Would you find out His needs and pray for Him? Or would you give Him a nod and walk off, thinking of what you’re going to have for dinner… how much homework your kids have… where the extra money is coming from for the doctor’s visit next month? We‘re all guilty of letting the world get in the way of God. The point is that God is in every face we see. Some people put up walls and make Him harder to distinguish, but He’s always there. He’s in the face of every student walking to class concerned about their mid-term. He’s in the face of every squealing child at the park who just took their first trip down the ‘big’ slide. He’s in the face of every woman who just found out that her first child is going to be a boy. He’s in the face of every man who just found out that he will have to go through chemotherapy to survive. God is always there, and part of connecting to Him is connecting to each other. Remember, we are the ‘body of Christ’? One finger doesn’t function as well without the other four: the left leg doesn’t function as well without the right. We are all connected through God, and we need that connection to function properly. “..there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.” (1 Corinthians 12:25-26, NIV). Let’s do what we can to keep ’the body’ strong.
There’s a really beautiful song by Joan Osborne called , “One of Us”. The chorus goes:
What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Tryin’ to make his way home?
The question, of course, that begs to be answered is, “What if God was one of us?” Well, what would you do? If you saw Him sitting next to you, not knowing who He really was, how would you treat Him? Would you smile and ask Him how His day was? Would you give Him bus fare if He was without change? Would you find out His needs and pray for Him? Or would you give Him a nod and walk off, thinking of what you’re going to have for dinner… how much homework your kids have… where the extra money is coming from for the doctor’s visit next month? We‘re all guilty of letting the world get in the way of God. The point is that God is in every face we see. Some people put up walls and make Him harder to distinguish, but He’s always there. He’s in the face of every student walking to class concerned about their mid-term. He’s in the face of every squealing child at the park who just took their first trip down the ‘big’ slide. He’s in the face of every woman who just found out that her first child is going to be a boy. He’s in the face of every man who just found out that he will have to go through chemotherapy to survive. God is always there, and part of connecting to Him is connecting to each other. Remember, we are the ‘body of Christ’? One finger doesn’t function as well without the other four: the left leg doesn’t function as well without the right. We are all connected through God, and we need that connection to function properly. “..there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.” (1 Corinthians 12:25-26, NIV). Let’s do what we can to keep ’the body’ strong.
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