Getting Your Magnitudes Mixed

In Matthew's gospel, Jesus told the story about those who were invited to the marriage feast, and he said: "but they made light of it and went off, one to his farm, another to his business," etc. (22:5)

We are prone to exaggerate the importance of our own problems. It is like holding a penny in front of your eye, and blotting out all that is beyond it. And yet, get that penny but a few feet away, and it is almost invisible.

Sometimes we make mountains out of mole‑hills...that spot on the rug, that broken plaster above the door, the blemish on the side of your face. Tiny things that upset us, and keep us from centering in on the really important things.

But there are also times when we minimize greatness...when we take mountains and turn them into mole‑hills. Such people never see the Lord, high and holy and lifted up. When they go to church, all they seem to notice are the mistakes of the organist. They are critical of the way the choir is dressed, and are disturbed by the cry of a small child.

Some do not ever find power in worship, because they surround themselves with little things that are of no consequence. They do not want to confront the enormity of the knowledge of God, because it will tax their imagination, it will stretch their spiritual grasp, it will tug at their heart‑strings, and they are much more content to grovel in their present condition of half‑hearted righteousness.

To know God and the greatness of fellowship with Him, is this not the Mt. Everest of human experience. And yet it is possible to make a mole‑hill out of it. So intent are we to consider the intricacies of our business, and the demands of our day by day activities, that God is lucky if He gets a passing "howdy" from some of His constituents.

And if we do this with God, we are likely to do it with other things as well...to hate instead of love...to speak lies instead of the truth...to see evil instead of good...to bend to iniquity, instead of walking in righteousness. Here are mountain peaks which some folks carve down to mole‑hills.

Some things we ought to minimize: our complaints, the slights that are cast our way, minimize our fears, and our worries. But don't cut your horizons down to your level...leave some big mountains in the landscape.

Jesus said that in the invitation from the King, some "made light of it, and went their way." What a commentary on crudeness...to make light of the invitation of the king. And yet is this not what some of us are doing as we lightly pass by the invitation of God to feast at His banquet table?

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