Chicken-Hearted
“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” What on earth does that mean? Will they break if there are too many in there? Will there be so many in the basket that they will start to warm each other up and hatch? Will other people get egg-envy and tackle me for my basket? So many questions... How do I know how to apply this saying I’ve heard so often? Some research should be conducted, I think. I will have to contact the experts in the field. Only the most qualified can participate in the project. To the hens I go. I guess I’m going to have to learn to read “chicken-scratch”. I have some doctor friends who will help me.
We all want to know where to put our eggs. There are all these fragile responsibilities to prioritize in our lives and so often one of them gets cracked in the jumbling and fumbling to which we are so prone. Maybe you’ve seen the illustration with the jar and the different sized rocks – they only all fit if the big ones go in first. But how does that really help? What happens when the rocks in your life all seem the same size? So many things seem just as important. I’m mixing my metaphors here, I know – Rocks or Eggs – The thing is, we need to sort out what’s what in our lives. Sometimes the big things in our lives are mountains we’ve made out of speed-bumps.
Christ is our compass. We look to him to find the secret to sorting out our lives. He said, “Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” I think the key to this is the very last phrase – “there your heart will be also.” Jesus wants us to have heaven-centric hearts. He wants us to be preoccupied with our real hope and our true home to the point that the very core of our beings (our hearts) are already there.
Jesus modeled this. When talking to Nicodemus he said, “No one has ascended into heaven… except the Son of Man who IS in Heaven.” He was already there. When praying to the Father just before he was betrayed he said, “I am no longer in the world…” The heart of Christ was with his Father in Heaven. Having a heaven-centred heart made it easy for Jesus to walk around without a single coin in his pocket, nowhere to lay his head, and associating with the dregs of society. It also made it just as easy for him to speak with authority to members of the Sanhedrin, to put Pilate in his place, and to refuse the offers of the Devil himself. Jesus knew what was what in life, because Heaven was always in mind.
His disciples asked how they should pray, and part of that prayer Jesus gave them was “…on earth, as it is in Heaven.” Let Heaven dictate life here. If it’s important there, it’s important here. Put your eggs in THAT basket. When you do, you’ll find that everything here settles into place – and you won’t need to consult the poultry.
BJ
We all want to know where to put our eggs. There are all these fragile responsibilities to prioritize in our lives and so often one of them gets cracked in the jumbling and fumbling to which we are so prone. Maybe you’ve seen the illustration with the jar and the different sized rocks – they only all fit if the big ones go in first. But how does that really help? What happens when the rocks in your life all seem the same size? So many things seem just as important. I’m mixing my metaphors here, I know – Rocks or Eggs – The thing is, we need to sort out what’s what in our lives. Sometimes the big things in our lives are mountains we’ve made out of speed-bumps.
Christ is our compass. We look to him to find the secret to sorting out our lives. He said, “Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” I think the key to this is the very last phrase – “there your heart will be also.” Jesus wants us to have heaven-centric hearts. He wants us to be preoccupied with our real hope and our true home to the point that the very core of our beings (our hearts) are already there.
Jesus modeled this. When talking to Nicodemus he said, “No one has ascended into heaven… except the Son of Man who IS in Heaven.” He was already there. When praying to the Father just before he was betrayed he said, “I am no longer in the world…” The heart of Christ was with his Father in Heaven. Having a heaven-centred heart made it easy for Jesus to walk around without a single coin in his pocket, nowhere to lay his head, and associating with the dregs of society. It also made it just as easy for him to speak with authority to members of the Sanhedrin, to put Pilate in his place, and to refuse the offers of the Devil himself. Jesus knew what was what in life, because Heaven was always in mind.
His disciples asked how they should pray, and part of that prayer Jesus gave them was “…on earth, as it is in Heaven.” Let Heaven dictate life here. If it’s important there, it’s important here. Put your eggs in THAT basket. When you do, you’ll find that everything here settles into place – and you won’t need to consult the poultry.
BJ
posted by BJ at 8:30 a.m.
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