Daily Java: Several days later Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess. He sent for Paul and listened to him as he spoke about faith in Christ Jesus. As Paul discoursed on righteousness, self-control and the judgment to come, Felix was afraid and said, "That's enough for now! You may leave. When I find it convenient, I will send for you. (Acts 24:24-25)
That can be a problem. You know you need to do something, but you do not want to do it.
Maybe you are living in a way that you like, or maybe feel you cannot change without a lot of effort. Maybe you are caught in a situation that to change it would be earth-shattering. Maybe you are just too lazy to change, or it would just be too hard.
Felix, the governor here, had a lot of respect for the apostle Paul, but he also had a lot of fear of the Jews. They could cause a lot of trouble and headaches for him and he just didn’t want to mess with them.
Whatever the reason, his problem was that he knew Paul was right. He needed to change and he didn’t want to.
We get in that problem a lot ourselves. We need to change our way of eating, or we need to do more exercise, or we need to get rid of a friend that is hurting us. Maybe the nights out where we drink too much cause a lot of problems with our family. Maybe just a little thing like a car that is causing us so much expense but we like it.
Whatever it is, we need to change, but we just feel it is too much trouble. After all, we like the food we eat, or the friends we have. Sure, they are hurting us, but changing just seems too hard.
Changing is hard. But sometimes we have to. Felix recognized that he needed to quit being the person he was and be something better.
But after all, he was a Roman governor, a position he didn’t get by being a good guy, for sure. And to change, he would have to give up a lot of stuff that he thought was fun.
He thought, there will come a time when I can do all this, and then I will listen.
We don’t know what happened, but chances are, he never found the time.
Then he died and it was too late.
I hope that doesn’t happen to you.
No comments:
Post a Comment
To comment, post your comment and click the anonymous button. It would be nice if you signed it so I could know who you are.
You are welcome to say anything you want as long as it is nice. If I don't like it, or it is ugly, I will take it off, place it into the garbage disposal, grind it up, and allow it to be flushed into the Gulf of Mexico where it will be eaten by a fish and then excreted where it will lie on the bottom of the ocean until it is covered up by other comments.