Storm or iPhone? Flash or Function? Seen or Unseen?

We’ve been spending some time in the book of John for the last few weeks.  It’s been exciting.  As I was preparing for my latest message on John Chapter 2 I was overwhelmed at how even Jesus’ mother looked to Jesus more for His Flash than His function.

Too often we focus the majority of our attention on the things that are flashy, the things that are seen and get the most attention (good worship, solid teaching, massive outreach, etc.).  These are all well, good and necessary, as was Jesus’ turning water into wine, but what about the things that are primarily unseen, the more functional things?  Things like prayer, fasting, purity, etc.  How much attention do we give to those?  You can see how easy it is to become “white-washed” tombs and not even know it while focusing on the flash and forgetting the function.

Much like Steve Jobs has done with the iPhone, I think it’s both possible and necessary to develop a balance between both flash and function in our spiritual lives.  Be careful however, if you’re all flash and no function you’re likely to end up more like Verizon’s first attempt to compete with the iPhone, (The Storm), useful only for a season and in desperate need of an upgrade…  spiritually speaking of course!

So how much attention are you giving to the seen as opposed to the unseen, the flash as opposed to the function?

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