I was recently reading Searching for God Know's What by Don Miller and he talked about the analogy of a lifeboat. There was room for everyone except one, which one would you choose to toss out. He said that the professions consisted of a lawyer, doctor, homemaker, etc. and then a garbageman. I started laughing out loud when I read this because, for those of you that didn't know, that is what I did for two years to support my family. I thought for sure that the g-man would quickly be tossed, if nothing else, for the better smell that would accompany that little fleck of sand in the vast desert that is the sea. I then started thinking about importance, who is important and what makes them that, people's presupposed values that are placed on individuals because of what, their profession. I have to say, when you sit back and look at it this is one of the most absurd things imaginable. What makes a job the plumbline for a person's value. Now, I admit, many of the g-men I worked with could be thrown in the hopper (trash truck) with the rest of the garbage when looking at them for an example of Christian character, but these are the people that Christ died for that he loved enough to lay down his life. I think too often we look at the doctor (who is secretly having the affair, then attending church with a smile on Sunday) would be seen as more valuable. That is the amazing thing about Christ, the first shall be last the last shall be first, flip-flop, upside down room, it is all thrown into the air and when it settles only God knows the outcome.
the rambler
p.s. before the string of hate mail comes flying in on my inconsistencies I know that Christ values all people, I am more looking at it from our twisted view of things.
p.s.s. I know this is not the point Miller was trying to make, just where my mind wandered
