A few
days ago, I came home from work and wanted to watch some TV and relax. As I sat down on the couch, I was informed by
my wife that little black remote that controls the volume to the sound bar had
gone missing.
A little
back story... Earlier that day, my kids had been playing and
apparently, they thought it would be good to play with the little black
remote. I’m not really sure why, but my
three-year-old son decided he would hide the remote. When my wife (and daughter) asked him where
the little black remote was, he would just shrug his shoulders and say, “I
can’t know where it is.” At one point in
the grilling of my son about the whereabouts of the remote, he added, “I put it
in a tricky place.” J I know, real cute.
Back to
my part of the story… As I was informed
of the missing little black remote, my wife said we could just watch TV anyway,
that it’d be a little loud but not horrible.
I went on a little hunt myself (with the help of my daughter), looking
in what I thought would be a tricky place for a three-year-old to hide a
remote. No luck. We watched our show despite the volume being
slightly elevated. We went to bed that
night still not having found the little black remote.
I woke up
the next morning on a mission, determined to find it. I looked again in all the places I had looked
the night before: in the toy box, behind the TV, in the pantry, and in the
laundry baskets, but I found nothing. I
was getting ready to leave my house to run a couple of errands and just
happened to look in the baby’s bouncy seat, and behold, there was the little
black remote under the baby’s jacket. It
was not in a tricky place at all, but actually it was in a place we easily
overlooked. I realized that day that my
son’s definition of “tricky” is not a reliable clue! "Tricky" meant we should have looked in the routine,
obvious places!
I was
remembering the whole scenario later, and it got me to thinking...
We as Christ-Followers oftentimes think that God has put the things He designed
for us in “tricky” places. We want to
experience the promises of God for our lives, but they just seem to be hiding in
the tricky places in life, out of sight and out of reach.
What I
learned that day is that what is hidden is not necessarily hidden in the tricky
but in the routine. Maybe you need
direction in your life, but you need to move that distraction in your life in
order to see that your direction is right there. Or maybe you are asking God to bless your
life financially, but the answer might not be that you win the lottery; maybe
instead, your answer will be in your getting into a routine of putting Him
first in the tithe.
My takeaway
for you and me is that we can oftentimes find what we are looking for in the routine of
life if we don’t overlook it just because it’s routine. Perhaps the direction you need is found in
the routine of reading the Bible every day.
Perhaps the words of God to you are found in the routine of going to
church regularly.
Matthew 7.7-8 Ask, and it will be
given to you; seek, and you
will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For
everyone who asks receives, and the
one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
I am
still learning to not overlook the routine in order to find my little black
remote in life. This was just a little
reminder for me from God.
What
little black remote can you find in the routine of your life?
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