Bumper sticker theology

Okay - I'm completely on a tangent today. But it seems worth sharing.

I was behind a car the other day that had a world class bumper sticker on the right, rear bumper. It said....

Wag more..........Bark less

I loved it. What a wonderful philosophy of life. Live in the happy, the good, the blessed in life. Gripe about life and the terrible things that come down the pike at you a whole bunch less. Imagine if we were to do that one simple thing.

But we won't, or we don't. We convolute the simple and complicate the obvious. We buy more and more toys or complain more and more hours of our day because life isn't going the way we think it should. We have become very adept at making things hard.

You might ask how I can say with certainty that we won't do the simple. And I would answer with this; God gave us one simple command - to love - and we can't even get close to getting that right. We are too invested in studying the Bible more or going to church more or discussing theology more to do the very simple "givens" that are already on the table. Our place mat is covered with the obvious, but we overlook it for the hidden, hoping to make the obvious disappear. And if we can get it to disappear, we might not be held accountable to do it.

We have a choice - we always have a choice. We can wag more and bark less, or we can do what we have always done and perpetuate our current level of incompetence in the Body of Christ.

.....Or we could just love.