How many times do you run into the convenience store to get milk or something and you know you’re paying too much, but you’re buying the convenience so you suck it up and pay the ridiculous amount. I have been having conversations with people lately that are paying too much for some of their decisions because they make their lives more convenient. I looked for the word convenience in three different bibles and it’s not in there. Isn’t that interesting? It appears that the Lord didn’t do any teachings that convenience is a part of.
I spoke to a woman one time that sent her kids to a daycare that wasn’t known for its great program but it was convenient for where she had to drive to work. Instead of looking at the fact that her children were surrounded ALL DAY by people that would influence their life and perhaps not take the best care of them she picked convenience. Another person told me they weren’t ready to end a relationship because the friend did a lot of favors for her that made her life more convenient. Rather than doing things herself she chose a friend that didn’t have her or her family’s best interest at heart for convenience. I took my son for a haircut one time and the lady that I usually saw wasn’t working so rather than come back another day I let a new woman cut his hair, it was convenient, however he got a terrible hair cut. You may be trying to lose weight or just eat healthier but at lunch time you go to a drive thru because it’s more convenient. Your husband rents a movie and it’s not something you really wanted your teens to watch but you do because it’s more convenient than fighting with the kids or worse yet going ALL the way back to the movie store and renting another movie. I think you catch my drift here. It didn’t seem like such a big thing to me at first but after talking to Jesus about it I realized it could be. I think convenience was created by the enemy to slowly rob us of the good choices we should make for our lives. I think that we have become lazy when making some important decisions.
I know it wasn’t convenient for God to send His only son to earth; it wasn’t convenient for Jesus to be raised by sinners or to be brutally beaten. It wasn’t convenient to be nailed to a cross by the very people He came to save. I have come to the conclusion that convenience is not in the Bible for a reason.
Don’t get me wrong I’m not saying it’s always bad to make a decisions based on the convienence. I guess as always I’m challenging you and me to ask ourselves, if I base a decision on convenience is it in the best interest of all parties. If the answer is no than what is the price I’m willing to pay?
I pray we will become men and women that don’t get sold out for convenience!
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