Good Morning!
Genesis 3:18; “The ground will grow thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat wild plants.”
Do you remember the old pop song, “Working in
the Coal Mine?” Lee Dorsey sang it;
Booker T am the MGs sang it even the Judds sang it. It was a song about working all the time but
never getting ahead.
“FIVE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNIN' I'M UP BEFORE THE
SUN
WHEN MY WORKDAY IS OVER, I'M TOO TIRED FOR HAVIN' FUN.”
I
think most of us feel that way. Work,
work, work seems to be all we do, and it seems we never get anything
accomplished. It can seem like we are
only spinning our wheels. This can leave
us feeling empty.
This is part of the consequences of sin in
our world and in our life. Nothing will
come to us in this world easily. Nothing
will be ours in a simple fashion. The
worst part is that others will seem to get things easily all the while we are
working very hard. This is part of the
isolation of sin. This is part of the
devil telling us that we are alone. We
will only work and work and never get ahead.
We will always have too much month at the end of the money. This is what the devil and the world will
tell us.
Our verse is both a pronouncement of
punishment but also a warning of our life.
God is telling Adam that he will work and work hard for his food his
whole life. Apart from God and his
grace, our life is futile. This is what
Solomon meant when he wrote, “vanity of vanities, all is vanity” everything is
a futile effort without God and his love.
Our work will be just that: work.
Our life will be work that at times will seem to be futile and sometimes
worthless because sin has separated us from God.
This is why God had to intervene into our
lives. We were going to be in this
endless cycle without him. We were going
to being running in a spinning wheel like a gerbil. So it was out of love that God stepped in to
break that cycle. Jesus came to put us
back right with God. He restored our
relationship with God and his love and grace.
We will still have to work and work
hard. There will still be weeds and
thorns in our life; there will be things that occur that make life difficult to
live. Yet we do not walk that life alone
and we do not face those battles with no one there to comfort us. God is there to guide us, to guard us from
the devil, to give us the certainty of hope in our salvation. So, we can look at all the weeds and see them
for what they are, temporary pain in our journey with Christ. There will be weeds but above all there is
God’s grace.
Gracious Father, Our life is weedy and hard and
without your love it is futile. Guard us
with your loving arms and give us the strength to live our life for you. Be with those who are struggling today and
only see weeds in their life. Bring them
into your gracious arms and give them the peace and comfort they need. In
Jesus’ precious name we pray, amen.
God’s
Peace,
Pastor
Bret
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