| | Roach Equity and the Humility of GodIt was my own fault. I shouldn't have left food in the sink if I didn't want to see a roach on my plate. Our building almost had to have them, with the 10% price cut compared to our last home.
I've always had trouble coexisting with these nasty little vermin. When we were newlyweds, Q once compared my reaction to roaches to God's reaction to our sin (probably that was the time I bolted from the room after an encounter with one and threw up. I wasn't pregnant at the time).
I could almost regret that we live in this building now, but that I'm highly aware that it was God's provision for us at this time. It appeared in the nick of time, like the ram in Abraham's thicket, and the space dimensions are perfect for us. In just a few days it already feels like home, with our garage-sale Christmas tree on a table in the corner and Christmas lights up in our not-yet-curtained patio window. And we can probably save about $1000 a year for the time we live hear, so it clearly puts us closer to owning our own home.
If this is God's provision for us, that means He has called me to contend with roaches again. As I contemplate what that will be like, it helps to think about how the Author and Finisher of my faith lived. He chose to be born in a period and a country where dealing with vermin was a way of life. Before the time of modern medicine, Jesus accepted that roaches would run over his food - having the knowledge of God, I imagine He also knew when it happened, and exactly what germs and diseases those roaches carried.
But He knew the diseases wouldn't kill him, because his life was preserved to be torturously sacrificed, for my sin. Jesus chose to live in an environment where he had to come in daily contact with not just with roaches, but also the sin and unbelief of everyone around him - and only once is there a record of him protesting.
He did not consider his equality with God as something to be grasped, but became like us, ate our contaminated food and touched our faithless hearts, so that he could die for our contaminating and pervasive sin. Since Jesus didn't demand a life of easy sanitation, I can learn to live with this.
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| | Posted 12/6/2006 9:07 AM - 0 comments
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