Cardboard Men
This Week's Theme: Pacing Yourself
Sunday, May 27, 2001
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Key Bible Verse: What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes (James 4:14).
Bonus Reading:Luke 12:13-21
In the early morning darkness these men migrate like lemmings from neighborhoods in which they don't know their neighbors down impersonal expressways to catacombs of commerce where they scurry about like rats in a maze.
At lunch they leave coworkers they hardly know to work out at a health club with other overweight men they've never met. After working late and forgetting to call home, they leave customers whose names they easily forget to arrive home after dark for a warmed-over dinner with a wife they barely know.
On Sunday they arise and travel to a church with kids they never spend much time with to hear a sermon with people whose names they've long since forgotten from a pastor to whom they've only said hello. They rush out the door to watch football games for which they will never remember the score.
Tragically, many times we, too, get caught up in a daily grind of unthinking routines. How do Christian men end up living cardboard lives?
—Patrick Morley in The Seven Seasons of a Man's Life
Lord, help me live my life as Jesus did, with deep purpose but not under pressure.
Adapted from: The Seven Seasons of a Man's Life (Zondervan, 1996)
For your convenience, The Seven Seasons of a Man's Life is available in the ChristianityToday.com bookstore. 1 of 1
Lord, help me live my life as Jesus did, with deep purpose but not under pressure.
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