I have always been a huge fan of Dr. Seuss. I mean, how can you not enjoy brightly colored pages, with absurd poetry that makes as much sense as it doesn't?
Dr. Seuss had a wonderful knack for creating a world that was completely unique and unlike anything we might relate to on earth - yet, we could relate to it just the same.
Green Eggs and Ham, glippity glop, red fish, blue fish and Truffula Trees.
It didn't matter that there was no such thing as a Triple-Ax-Hacker, much less that it could be invented at the drop of a hat. It didn't matter that half the words he used were made up, just because he needed something to rhyme.
Dr. Seuss didn't play by the literary rules. He made up his own.
But as I thought about this, I began to ponder how many people try to do the same thing with Christianity.
We try to make up our own rules.
We want to pick and choose which laws apply to us. We want to look at God's Word and take certain parts and apply them to our lives, and throw the others away.
Love everyone? Has God met my neighbor? Seriously?
Give generously? If God had given me a better job....
Read His Word? Uh...I don't read...
Share the gospel? I was always told to use words when necessary....right?
....there are so many ways we try to pick and choose. Ways we try to mold our faith into something that's convenient. Something that's easy.
We want to make up our own words. Words that we think should rhyme with our story.
But we can't. We aren't Dr. Seuss. And we aren't writing children's books.
We're followers of Christ that have been given a task, a purpose. In order to fulfill that, we have to play by HIS rules.
We don't get to make up our own.
Come back to reality. Your life is not your own.
Remember whose rules you play by and quit making up words.
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