Is your Refrigerator Running?

Answer: no.

I have a little fridge in my office, and when I went for a soda today it was actually colder in the room than it was in the fridge.  I haven’t had much experience with refrigerators before, but I’m pretty sure that’s a problem.  Thank goodness I didn’t have milk in there, or I think this would be a very different (and much more disgusting) blog entry.

Life is full of moments where life just doesn’t seem to work the way it is supposed to.  It seems like things break down a lot, or as though we are always losing something.  Often we are able to connect with Job, a character in the Bible who lost everything.  In Job’s story, he reacts by praising God and keeping Him as his first priority.  None of us like to lose things (jobs, opportunities, dreams, relationships, refrigerators, etc.), but Job reminds us of an important question to ask in those moments “Is this loss better or worse than losing God?”  The obvious answer to that question is that it is better; I would rather lose my refrigerator than lose my relationship with God.  The blessing here is that while I can lose all sorts of things in this life, nothing can take God’s love away from me (John 10:29).  This means that the best thing I have going for me is something permanent.  Everything else can go if it has to, but I’ve got the most important thing always with me.