EXCUSES

Musick-al Note # 305                      

         So often we are prone to excuse ourselves from doing a work in the church.  We’re too tired or too busy, or some other excuse. While we may be tired or busy or may not feel like doing this particular work or attend all the time, we ought to realize that such reasoning will not suffice with God.  To put it another way, we need to remember God and Christ gave so much of themselves to bring about our salvation.  They could have allowed us to be lost, but their love constrained them to save us.  It meant sending the Son from heaven and living among sinful man as man himself.  It meant laying to burden of sin on Him.  It meant Jesus had to endure the suffering of the cross.  It meant agony, torture and death, yet from their love and endurance of these things, salvation has been granted you and me.  How do your excuses and my excuses compare when we say, “I’m too tired” or “I’m too busy” or “I don’t feel like it” or “I just have to get away for a while?”  They sound pretty shallow and childish don’t they?  Shall we continue to give excuses when we consider the great gifts of God and His Son, Jesus?

           Gordon Musick