What's in Your Background?

As we go about our lives on daily basis even as fully devoted Christians, we tend to focus soly on what we are doing. I find this especially true for myself as a student because everything I’m doing is really to help others…. No seriously. Going to class, homework, work study,…… all in order to become the best teacher in order to change lives forever right? So true. Even in ministry we get caught up in what we are doing that is ultimately to impact others so it needs our total focus. It’s like our life is a movie. We are the main character and the people we are trying to reach ultimately are minor characters and then there is the background. In any movie there is the main characters and then tons of people that aren’t significant in the slightest, you never find out there name or who they really are.. we recognize them as people but not as individuals. Well our lives aren’t movies but we treat people the same in real life.

 How many times a day do we pass people yet never the individual? Never Bob. Never Sally. Never Sue. You get the point. See I’ve realized something in the past few days; we always have loads of sympathy, prayer, time, and concern for the families who have just suffered loss or other tragedies, yet never recognized them up to that point. Take someone who commits suicide… people saw them all throughout their life up to that last breathe. He or she entered church houses and people acknowledged that he or she was there, but did the know that person. Did they really seem them for insert name here or did they seem him as that kid who came a couple Wednesdays who was a friend of so and so. I can’t help but wonder if we cared as much about these people when they seem to be just the background as we did after their gone or deep into horrible trouble, maybe we could have changed the outcome. Maybe if we could have stopped while we were on our way to minister to a certain group to show a tiny bit of God’s love on that person walking by, it could have altered their future. I think we get so consumed in the cause or call placed on us that we forget to show his love to things outside of that. It’s not that we refuse or are rebellious we just simply get our scope so narrowed everything else just fades to the background.