My Worst Shower Would Have Been Paul’s Best

If little things are making you frustrated and angry… If not so little things are seriously robbing your joy in life… you just might be holding on to a lie that needs to be exposed. 

Most every Christian worker in the West should realize how much better we have it than the vast majority of those who have gone before us. If not, we’re robbing ourselves of so much joy, and God of so much worship.

I taped a couple of shows recently at Focus on the Family on The Life You Were Reborn to Live: Dismantling 12 Lies that Rob Our Intimacy with God. I stayed in the same hotel I’ve been to probably a dozen times, but for whatever reason, the morning of the interview, the shower temperature was either scalding hot or ice cold. Even so, I realized, if this was the worst shower of my life, it was better than any shower the apostle Paul ever got to enjoy during his missionary trips. And I felt spoiled by God.

Frank Viola published a wonderful book this year, The Untold Story, that puts the New Testament in narrative form. When you read what the early church workers endured, and how simply and even sacrificially they lived, it’s nearly impossible to feel entitled. When Paul wrote, “If we have food and clothing, we will be content with that,” (1 Timothy 6:8), he was writing from experience. Having spent nights floating in the sea, he had learned to make do with even less than that.

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