Author - Rodney Olsen

I recently stumbled upon the I See Jesus website. Interesting.

I’m sure it’s all tongue in cheek but it reminded me of visiting a small church building with an ‘apparition’ on the wall. No matter how long I looked at it, it simply looked like a bad plastering job with rising damp. The locals were adamant that it was a clear representation of Mary and Jesus.

The walls of the church were filled with small prayer cards. Obviously hundreds of people were convinced that God would hear their prayers better if they were offered up in the building with the bad plasterwork. (My favourite was someone who had placed a card asking for prayer for their sick ferret.) I can’t think of any rational reason, much less a scriptural one, that God would choose to work in this way yet people had traveled from all over the world to see this building. I just happened to be in town for a few days and dropped in to see what the fuss was about.

It’s sad that we let people get so distracted by stuff like that when we should be introducing them to the living Jesus, not some image on a wall that needs a good deal of squinting and imagination to see.

I’m constantly amazed at how we can let our time with Jesus slip away or be crowded out.

When I’m spending time with him each day everything seems to make more sense and life is decidedly more agreeable, yet so often I let things slide for a while before I suddenly realise what’s going on. Sometimes it can be a day, sometimes a few days or even longer before I have to give myself a slap in the face and get things back in order. Why would I let something so important and so ‘life giving’ slip down my list of priorities?

Time to start spending quality time with my Lord a priority again.