I'm desperately trying to organize something with friends (unsuccessfully though since no one is free on a Monday night). Why do I turn to my friends? Because I never get bored of them! Well, my genuine friends at least. I don't feel like watching television, I don't feel like playing video games, I don't feel like reading and the list goes on and on. I just want to hang out with friends.
It seems to me like real relationships never get boring. This is why you have people who can spend weekend after weekend with each other for years and yet they never get sick of it. The same goes for family, I've been around my family for over eighteen years and I'm still not bored of them! Sure, we need "our space" every now and then but that's because of our sinful nature.
This concept can also be seen in the most important part of my life: my relationship with God. I may drift away from God now and then, but I could never get bored of him. And for some reason He never gets bored of us, our constant sinfulness and predictability. Psalm 86, Lamentations 3:22 - 24, Matthew 6:25 - 34 and 1 John 1:9 make this very clear. These passages about steadfast love, mercy and forgiveness that never run out show us that God never gets bored of His people!
So how should this affect us? Let us not put all of our time and energy into pointless, inanimate stuff. We must work on relationships! We must live sacrificially for each other and in doing that we will be glorifying God, thus building up our most important and largest relationship. Let us treasure other people above ourselves, when we're bored, let us serve our friends and family and the Lord! For Christ came to earth in order to serve us and His father, not to be served by worldly things (Matthew 20: 25)!
