Gold Nugget
Verse 28: “Then they
will call on me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently, but they
will not find me."
Commentary
I will
tell on my son for just a moment. Since I have more than one, we will leave it
a mystery to which son it is… (well to those that don’t know him anyway). Through his
early school years, he was very good in his studies. He always finished atop
his class with little effort. As he grew older he got less and less interested
with his school work. Sports, girls and video games became more his passion.
Somehow he always managed to squeeze out a point above failing and progress to
the next level. Procrastination became his new approach to all things that didn’t
fall in the big three categories previously mentioned. This approach got him
through most of high school - although it strained our relationship at times. As
was his mode of operation, he had everything all figured out leading up to
graduation. He had barely passed all the classes he needed to pass and had a
few classes that he was going to “test out” of. Like many classes, if you can
pass a test of general knowledge, it can result in a passing grade despite your
lack of input in daily assignments, quizzes, etc. He did so with several tests
and was on track to graduate. Until… he had only one class left that would
stand between him and walking the stage on graduation day, but he was certain he
would pass it with ease.
Finally the day cam for my son to test out of his final class and graduate from High School. At the last moment he learned a tragic detail that had
escaped him. This was one of the classes that could not be circumvented by a “test
out”. This class was like many others that required the minimum daily assignments
and quizzes be completed and passed. At this point it was too late. After years
of hanging in with his friends and progressing to the next grade, he was not able to walk the stage and graduate with them. He sought out the teacher for an
escape from the dilemma, but it was too late. All of his crying out for help went
un-answered. He had doomed himself. Like today’s “gold nugget” describes, “Then they
will call on me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently, but they
will not find me." We
must react to doing the right thing while the opportunity is still here. Many
people will miss the “Big Graduation” because they think they can just get by
with the bare minimum. If we treat our walk with the Lord like my son did his
studies, we may find ourselves calling out, but it may be too late.
Prayer
Lord, help us to realize that we
should be living our lives in a way that pursues what is right and not just
trying to get by. I want to please you in my daily assignments and even in the
pop quizzes of life. All of these will require consistent interaction with you,
my Teacher. Amen
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