The Power Of Rest預覽

As I was heading to the airport after a conference, I was talking to Drenda on the phone. She said, “Let’s agree that you can fly home first class.” When I got to the airport, it was clear that an upgrade wasn’t happening. All of the first class seats were taken.

As I sat down on the plane, there was a small commotion in front of me as a man voiced his complaint about not being able to sit with his wife. No one wanted to switch seats with him. After a few moments, I offered to give up my aisle seat and take a middle seat, so they could sit together. The flight attendants were very thankful that I had helped make the couple comfortable.

About 30 minutes into the flight, the flight attendants started to serve the economy seats their normal drinks and peanuts. The first class curtain had been drawn, but you could smell a full meal being served to the first class guests. Suddenly, one of the flight attendants was in front of me in the aisle with a full first class tray in her hands. She had walked all the way back to me in row 27 and said, “I thought you might be hungry.” I sure was!

About an hour after the meal, one of the attendants appeared with a full snack tray. This was only happening for me, not anyone else in all of the economy seat area of the plane.

People around me were acting normally, but when they brought me another snack—a hot chocolate chip cookie and a drink—near the end of the flight, well, that was the last straw for many of the people around me, including the lady who finally asked me who I was.

That story is a perfect illustration of what life should be like for YOU as a believer—everyone else may be surviving on peanuts, but you should have more.

So many people get to a point in their lives where they’re comfortable—they’re paying their bills, able to buy a few extra things that they want, and are more or less content with their jobs—and that’s it. They’re satisfied and that’s enough for them.

That shouldn’t be you.

God wants to use you. He wants to give you the privileges of first class. He wants people to look at your life and say, “Wow! What happened to them? How’d they do that?”