Relationships

Three months later a pile of unfolded towels confronted me once again. When I finished, they looked like a stack of bloated burritos. Alas, I had forgotten the rules of towel-folding. Was April’s wrath soon to follow?  If we adjusted Habakkuk 1:13 to reflect April’s predicament, it would go like this: “Your eyes are too pure to approve horrible towel-folding, and you cannot look on horrible towel-folding with favor.”

Sadly, that becomes a pattern of life for so many people.  As long as they get what they want from God, they hang around a church with some sort of regularity.  But as soon as He doesn’t answer a prayer in the manner which they believe He should, they are done with Him. 

For example, a teacher takes his teenagers through the story of David and Bathsheba. Then the teacher says, “It’s wrong to commit adultery. So don’t do it.” That’s the ‘what.’ But where’s the ‘why?’ According to our teenagers, David and Bathsheba lived way, way before cell phones were invented. So what’s the story got to do with them today?