Sometimes!

     Sometimes life isn't fair.  Sometimes we don't win.  Sometimes things get tough.  Sometimes the darkness closes in around us and squeezes us so tight we feel like we can't breath.  Sometimes our friends turn on us and lash out at us like a violent enemy ready to strike us down in anger.  Sometimes our family feels like strangers, and sometimes the church feels like a house of oppression and judgement.  Such is life and such is the way of a Christian.  Let's be honest.  Traveling for the Lord is not a life filled with ease and riches.  Obeying God's word is not always pleasant.  It goes against what our flesh and bone desires.  Our body wants to please itself.  We want to fulfill our lusts and our wicked cravings.  Sin beckons and we long to go to it.  It is a siren song calling us to crash our ship upon the rocks.  Sometimes it takes the crack of the master's whip upon our fleshly back to wake us to reality so that we row against the current that is pushing us to sure devastation.

     Sometimes we are tired and don't feel like getting up for Sunday School or church.  Sometimes reading the Bible just isn't as fun or thrilling as the latest Stephen King thriller or the reality series I am watching on TV.  Sometimes I am just too busy to pray.  I forget surely God understands.  Do your friends understand when you don't return their calls?  Does your mother get upset when she doesn't hear from you in a while?  So does God.  Sometimes he wants his children to simply love him and want to spend time with him, but instead we are so involved in our crammed filled lives that we leave no room for fellowship and caring.

    Sometimes sharing the gospel just doesn't feel right.  I know my friends position and I have agreed not to preach at them.  Sometime when your in Heaven and they are in Hell, try explaining that one to them.  Sometime I am uncomfortable sharing because I don't feel I know enough.  You know what the Lord has done for you right?  You know what your church family means to you don't you?  How has God changed your life?  These are the greatest testimonies you can share.

     Sometimes it's hard to trust people.  This world is so full of crooks and thieves.  How am I supposed to get by and give anyone a chance?  Sometimes we have been hurt and just can't open up and thus we lock up our heart and our feelings.  Sometimes we don't want to be a part of the team, we just want to be left alone.  But alone we focus on our pity and our shame.

     What if Jesus had lived by the Sometime Principal?  Where would we be?  Maybe he could have said I'll do it sometime, when I have time.  Perhaps he could have said I know they are too busy and don't want me to interfere, so I am just going to let them be.  Jesus might have looked down and said I'll die for you when you finally take SOME TIME for me.  I am so thankful that Jesus loved me enough to overlook my sometimes, and to come to me at the right time, and now he lives within me all the time.  You can overcome your sometimes, you can rise above the bad times, and you can find that your sometimes can be good times.  You outlook can change, your spirit can look up, and your heart can sing.  This is the day the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it.