DON’T FORGET TO CHANGE YOUR CLOCK ON SATURDAY NIGHT.
Spring forward by moving it up an hour. Or, we’ll be seeing you at 11:30, which gets you there in time for lunch, but you will miss an incredible sermon.
I’m a careful driver. If you know me, you know why. I stay pretty close to the speed limit. I’ve never been given a ticket. (Probably get one on the way to church for saying that.)
Yet, if I pass a police car or see one in my rearview mirror, I immediately think, “Uh, oh, am I doing something wrong?”
What about you? Do you do a quick check to see if you might be pulled over? Do authority figures make you feel guilty even if you haven’t done anything wrong?
Your boss wants to see you?
Your kids’ teacher calls and leaves a message that you need to call them?
Your client needs to talk with you ?
Okay, maybe I’m the only one that has a knee-jerk reaction to authority. But, I don’t think so.
I think most of us can be quickly in touch with a sense of our shortcomings, our inadequacies, our ‘sins.’ We become aware of a performance gap. And we either feel guilty about it, or we become driven to overcome it with achievement or control.
This Sunday we will be looking at a passage in the Bible that tells us how we can be free of the results of our mess-ups, 1 John 1:5-2:2. It’s all about becoming an honest person who doesn’t run from the light, but steps into it. John says that we can then have a shared life with God and with one another.
A shared life . . . . . . Not bad for people who aren’t perfect. Who don’t even have to pretend to be.