We don't need no education. A small parable.

I just relized that for the first time in 17 years I am not going to be starting school this fall. It is a little sad, but then life moves on. Reading about every one elses back to school fun does make me miss it more.

Justin Moser this Sunday talked about this house in his neighborhood that was the biggest house around. It started construction, but was not finished. Whomever had started buidling it did not have the funds or something to finish it. It sat unfinished for several years. Then someone else bought it and was able to finish it. He compared this to some spiritual lives, and that the building can be interrupted, but still built on later. One part of the sermon really stuck with me, and I have been crafting this little illustration to let you into how my mind works.

You take some time off to relax and catch up with some old friends. Your friend invites you to stay with him for a few weeks in his new place down by the beach. His new house is beautiful. It has all the modern conveniences and is the lap of luxory. You head out and are enjoying the trip, catching up on old times. However you notice something strange, on the weekend your friend heads off and returns the next day. The next weekend he says he is going away again. Upon inquiring where he is off to you find out that he also has a place in the mountains. Thinking that this would be a nice change of scenery you ask to come along, and he is more then happy for you to come. When the two of you reach the house in the mountains you are startled because it is shell of a house. It was never finished and the weather is wearing it away. When you ask why he spends any time at this wreck your friend replies indignantly that this is his main residence and the other house is just another place. He claims his heart is up here in the mountains, but you question this based on where he spends his time and money to make it nice.

This friend's spiritual life only gets worked on when he gets around to it on the weekends, his real treasures, effort, and time are spent elsewhere. We need to give Christ the best of our time and build our house to him up, so that it is full of the things that we cherish.