We ALL want the best seats!
We want to see everything….clearly!
We want to be in-the-know.
We want the best-of-the-best.
Most times we pay dearly for these kinds of seats…
Not on the floor, but near enough you could see what was happening, smell the sweat, and hear the coach and players in conversation.
Their verbal barrage didn’t just cover coaches and referees, but players, as well.
I remember clearly the night the man behind me yelled at my husband for missing a free throw.
At the top of his lungs, he said, “You’d think for $100,000 a year, you could at least make a free throw!!!!”
I stayed silent, but I wanted to say: “You try making a free throw with people like you in the stands, feeling the pressure of fans, coaches, your teammates, your family, and wanting to please everyone all-the-time.”
I just hoped he didn’t know who sat in front of him.
Obviously, these people in these seats around me paid the high cost to get this one opportunity…they longed to be heard and this gave them an edge over those seated in the nose-bleed-sections.
Place their pictures next to the word “obnoxious” in the dictionary.
We are like this in life, as well.
We want to control the script.
We want to sit close enough to be heard.
We want to inform the “coach,” spur him on to better decisions, give input at the table on how things should unfold here below.
Our thoughts center on just how we can manipulate every situation and keep the “coach” in-the-know as to what is the better play to call…and we judge the rightness and wrongness of all situations.
It’s easy to do this as long as we stay seated below…
When we are “seated in the heavenlies,” at the King-Table we have the best view, the ear of the “coach,” and the KNOW that we don’t understand the game of life as well as we thought we did.
We grasp the concept that our heavenly “coach” really is omniscient (all-knowing).
Our eyes are opened to how wrongly we judge Him (as if we have that right).
We comprehend that He’s got everything planned out, and nothing will thwart that plan (not even our advice).
His character assures us that, indeed, He, faithfully, watches over and loves His own deeply (our good is always in His heartfelt decisions).
If we fail to “take our seat,” we’ll live fearful, fretting, anxious, discouraged, and uncertain in the face of life.
It’s why the Lord God gifted us with a new seat right next to Him.
As we sit with Him, we get to know His heart.
As we sit with Him, we get a better view of what He’s doing below.
As we sit with Him, we trust Him more.
We may not understand everything He’s doing, but because we KNOW HIM BETTER, we grasp the truth that nothing ever touches us that is not a part of a bigger, better plan that will be for our good and, more importantly, HIS GLORY—
As we see how He has dealt with the past, we’re assured the present and the future are all under His mighty hand—
Most of all, we catch just how much He loves us, and we know that while being seated in His presence, “no trial can disarm us, no sorrow can ever disturb us, no circumstance will cause us to fret.”*