The Parable of the Spa (part 2)
After a year of having our spa just sitting there taunting us, we decided that we would use our vacation money to hook it up. What an exciting day that was! I went out back to check on it every half hour to see how much the temperature of the water had risen. That night we jumped in and it was fantastic! Three nights later, as we were enjoying the jets and scalding hot water…it shut off. One moment we were in water therapeutic bliss, the next we were in mourning over what just happened.
What was wrong? The spa was hooked up to the right power supply (240 volts), but the wires connecting the spa to the power were not right. When the jets kicked on, it drew much more power than the wires would allow, and that blew the fuse. Right in the middle of enjoying everything a spa was supposed to be, the unseen problem of incorrect wiring shut it all down. It was good that the fuse blew, too. Those wires could have heated up and caused a fire.
Can this happen to us and our churches? We’re connected to God and everything is running beautifully. We’re living out our purpose, our churches are serving the community and modeling the love of God, people are being changed and ministered to, and then boom. Everything just stops. Or, worse, people get hurt.
That “bad wiring” is different for each of us. For me it’s usually not enough time sitting and listening to God patiently. Because of this, I tend to suffer from what’s known in Christian circles as “Martha Syndrome“. I get so busy working (“serving”) that I lose sight of what is important, and get frustrated with people that more isn’t being done.
Yours is probably nothing like that, right? Yours is probably that you’re too passionate for the lost, too hungry for righteousness, so in love with Jesus that you just can’t stop talking about Him or talking to Him…right?
What I find interesting about this is that if Jen and I just wanted hot water and no jets (no healing therapy) then we would have never known about the bad wiring.
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