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day it’s the same thing! I arrive home
from work, stop by the mailbox and retrieve the letters, cards, bills, and
whatever else the postman has left for me. Mostly, my box is filled with this
“whatever else”, a conglomeration of advertisements, cards, offers for new
credit cards, and discount coupons for all types of things I don’t need or
want.
I’m
sure your mailbox looks about the same, always filled with “junk mail” that you
didn’t ask for and that you will never use.
As if this weren’t bad enough, my e-mail box also falls victim on a
daily basis to all types of junk mail.
Despite my attempts to remove myself from advertisers’ mailing lists, it
seems that more and more junk mail finds its way into my inbox on a regular
basis.
Although
we call this mail “junk mail” we still cull through it! We look at the advertisements, we flip
through the sale papers, and we open the credit card offers just to make sure
this is something we don’t need. In the
process, we are tempted to keep these items and sometimes we try them out, much
to our regret later on. Who among us
hasn’t signed up for something we really didn’t need and couldn’t afford simply
because a piece of junk mail convinced us a certain item was something we
simply could not live without?
Have
you ever stopped to consider that our lives are mailboxes and they are
constantly being filled with junk mail?
Minute by minute it seems the world is sending us all kinds of messages,
promising success, fame, fortune, and whatever we desire if we will simply
subscribe to the latest fad or fashion.
Radio commercials, television advertisements, billboards along the road,
magazines, newspapers, you name it, at every turn we are bombarded with the
world’s junk mail.
Trying
to filter through all this to determine what is truly of merit and what is not
is a full-time job, one that leaves us not only tired but also frustrated and
dejected as well. We find ourselves
wanting to know the truth, simply the truth, so that we can orient our lives to
that truth and walk in its light. Once
we know the truth, we can then make each and every decision in relation to that
truth and set our lives on a direct course instead of spiraling out of control.
In
John 8:32, Jesus gave his disciples the most
wonderful piece of mail they had ever received.
Listen to his words, “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you
free." Just prior to this passage,
Jesus also told his disciples that if they obeyed his commandments they were
really his disciples. The result of
being Christ’s disciples is knowing the truth and consequently being free from
all the ties the world places on us.
When
we come to know Jesus Christ, we come to know the truth and we can see the
world’s promises for what they really are—junk mail! Only in Jesus can we find the truth and only
in him can we live a life that is pleasing to God. So, how long has it been since you checked your
heart’s mailbox? How long has it been
since you went through all the mail the world sends to clog life? Don’t you think it’s time you opened God’s
letter, the Bible, and understood what the truth really is? How about
putting an end to all that junk mail today?
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