Posted on June 21, 2009 - by thnkr7

Father’s Day

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Do you have a Man’s drawer in your house?

Jeff Lucas tells a story about one day returning a DVD to a rental store.

Clutching his DVD he joined the queue at the till. He noticed there was a sticker on the DVD case, Be kind, rewind, it urged on the case.  It confused Jeff deeply, so much so that when he got to the counter this is the conversation which took place between Jeff and a somewhat disinterested acne fighting youth serving behind the counter.

Jeff; Excuse me, could I ask you about this sticker?
Spotty youth; Yeah, what about it?
Jeff; well, it says “Be kind, re wind”
Spotty youth; Right, it does.
Jeff; That sounds silly.
Spotty youth; (mildly incensed) What? Why?
Jeff; because this is a DVD it is therefore impossible for one to rewind.
Spotty youth; (rolling his eyes) Of course you can’t rewind a DVD. It’s a DVD
Jeff; er. Yes, that’s what I just said. So why put the stocker on the DVD case, which is likely to confuse people and prompt them to ask questions about it?
Spotty youth: It’s simple.  When we stopped doing videos and changed over to DVDs, we had hundreds of stickers left over and the boss didn’t want to waste them, seeing as we’d paid to have them printed, so she made us put the stickers on the DVDs’
Jeff; so your boss paid for the stickers that are now redundant and then paid yet more money in staff time to place these useless stickers on DVD cases that are likely to confuse customers like me?
Spotty youth; (looking over Jeff’s shoulder at the customer behind me with a look that said “I’ve got a right one here.”)  You’ve got it.  We used up the leftovers stickers.  Any other questions?

There was indeed really only one place for those outdated and misleading stickers - and that’s in the bin.

(Taken from Christianity Magazine April 2009, http://www.christianitymagazine.co.uk/ )

Do you have a mans drawer in your house?  What is it full of?  Maybe you have a mans shed?  What is it full of?
Is it full of things that you are not quite sure what to do with?  Or is it that you are just afraid to throw them away?  Unused batteries, (I find them in the PA boxes we use here at the Bridge), old money from countries that no longer use that currency?  A radiator bleeding key,
I have a pot of old nails and screws of indeterminate length and size that I keep in the hope that one day they might be useful.
I wonder if you have any stickers in the man drawer of your house?  Stickers that say “Be kind rewind”

I think that men are often consigned to the man drawer themselves.
I sometimes think that some people, including the media, think the same thing about fathers as they do about stickers that are on DVDs that say “be kind rewind”.

I believe men are looking for adventure.
I believe they are looking for something to live for that is bigger than them but which they can be involved with that makes a difference.
Men are looking for strong leadership.
Men are looking for role models to aspire to, men of substance who they can follow,

God once said to a man “Leave what you know and go to a place that I will show, as you get to know me you will become great, you will be a blessing to others, Come lets go on an adventure, you and me together.”

And that man did go on an adventure with God, and he did become great, and he did live for something that was much bigger than he was, and he did make a difference.

This is what it says in the book of Hebrews in the bible about this man.

Abraham had faith and obeyed God. He was told to go to the land that God had said would be his, and he left for a country he had never seen.   Because Abraham had faith, he lived as a stranger in the promised land. He lived there in a tent, and so did Isaac and Jacob, who were later given the same promise.  Abraham did this, because he was waiting for the eternal city that God had planned and built.  Even when Sarah was too old to have children, she had faith that God would do what he had promised, and she had a son.   Her husband Abraham was almost dead, but he became the ancestor of many people. In fact, there are as many of them as there are stars in the sky or grains of sand along the beach.

Hebrews 11: 8-12 (The Good News Bible)

What life of adventure is God calling you to?  Will you respond to him?