Chairs

Have you ever paid attention to chairs? There are like a go-zillion different type of chairs. Some are big, some are small, some are weird looking and some don't even look like chairs to me. In my office building there are some metal chairs out in a courtyard area that are the most uncomfortable chairs ever. They don't give in when you sit down into them. It is as if they are there to serve a purpose but they want to make sure that you don't overstay your welcome. By the time you finish eating your lunch your back and rear-end hurt so bad you are ready to go back to your desk chair.

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Which leads me to desk chairs. I have taken a few desk chairs for a spin around the block before and some of them are wonderful. I used to work at an office that had desk chairs that were vented to allow air to get to your back and then they had a lumbar support in the lower part of the chair. Sitting at my desk was wonderful! My office chair now is something that I would like to throw in the dump! It is big, clumsy, uncomfortable and old. (Kind of like me!! haha) It is nothing like a recliner.

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A recliner...sigh...just thinking about a recliner makes me smile. We have one at home that is pretty good. It is big and bulky but it just seems to hug you when you sit in it. We have had it so long that one of the arms is starting to give away and I just know that one day we are going to sit down in this chair and the entire side of it just fall off into the floor. I love to go to a furniture store and test drive their recliners. Oh how wonderful some of them feel. They are so inviting, comforting, almost like they have arms that wrap around you at just the right time.

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You know sometimes we as Christians are like chairs. Sometimes we are metal and stiff and we listen to someone else's worries but it is as if we let them know after a while that we are done and tired of them and they need to move on. Sometimes we are like office chairs and even though we are comforting for a little while we just eventually end up running tired and throw them away. Good thing Jesus is like a recliner! "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28. Jesus doesn't say that he will give you rest for a little while, a week or two, a burden or two, he says he will give you rest and then there is that wonderful punctuation mark, a period. That's the end of it. No strings attached. He wraps his loving arms around us like our favorite recliner.