A Lesson I May Not Want to Learn...

Estate sales. I find them quite appealing and so very interesting. I saw the fluorescent pink signs advertising one while driving down 21st street between Memorial and Sheridan the other day. I was in no real hurry to get anywhere or to do anything, so I thought I would stop and take a quick look...Big mistake!

Oh really, and why was that?

Because I walked out of the place with $150.00 worth of stuff? No! I spent $3 on a precision screwdriver set, because members of my family and I tend to lose, then find, but then cannot tighten the eyewire screw of our glasses.

Because I spent the rest of my day scouring Tulsa for more estate sales? No! That was the only estate sale I went to that day. And I have not been to another one since.

Because you passed on some items that now you wish you would have purchased? No! Considering all of the 'stuff' this man had had, the screwdriver set was really the only item I considered a need(and really not even a necessity).

No! The big 'mistake', so to speak, was not revealed to me until I was walking back to the pick-up truck. God's inquiring Spirit asked me, "Lee, what would have Jesus' estate sale looked like"? I was so stunned by the question that I thought I had not heard it correctly. Upon hearing the question repeated from the Spirit, I realized that what stunned me was not so much the question itself, but the implication or application of the question in my life!

I can envision these signs posted all over Jerusalem the day after His ascension:

Mini Estate Sale

Possessions of Jesus of Nazareth

Only Two Items:

Cloak

Pair of Sandals

This truth is so profound and so penetrating and potentially so convicting that I cannot wrap my mind around it all yet. However, one aspect of this truth that I have realized is this: it took the laying out/spreading out of another's life accumulations to understand that I have/possess/accumulate/hoard way, way too much!