Lines

From our youth we have been encouraged to stay within the lines - to color within them and to stand in them. The lunch line. The line to get on the bus. The marching band marched in a line on a field that was painted with lines.

Lines seem to form nearly everywhere we go. We wait in line for all kinds of events - to get in, to get out, to buy food, to go to the bathroom. Lines are everywhere!

What IS a line anyway? Geometry class teaches that a line is a point with direction. If that's the case, aren't we ourselves just lines? Do we have a point to our lives? Are we going in the right direction?

I watched 13 coffins being unloaded from a plane yesterday. The soldiers marched in a line, the mourners stood in line. What's "the point?" Are we as a nation going in the right "direction?"

If you haven't figured it out by now, the "point" of this life is to learn. We learn good things and bad. Happy and sad. It's easy to be "a point." Things just happen to us and we move on. Or do we? Movement implies direction. Which way are we moving then?

Jesus tells us that He is "the way, the truth and the life." Hmm. The way . . . that sounds like . . . a direction. We Christians ARE lines!! We have a point AND a direction!

We are told in Luke 21:28 . . .

"So when all these things begin to happen, stand and look up, for your redemption draws near!”

That was Jesus speaking and those "things" are all happen right now. Wars, rumors of wars, famines, pestilences, plagues, earthquakes, floods . . . and here we sit, little "points" in search of direction. Jesus has already given us that direction. Look up!

Where's The Line To See Jesus - Becky Kelley