Treasure Digest: What Is the Context of Your Life?

Jun 1, 2004
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It's our choice how we spend our time but, as the saying goes, "Action follows thought."

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It's our choice how we spend our time but, as the saying goes, "Action follows thought." What is our frame of reference? What do we think about most?

In God's Church we have been taught to "consider the context." What is the context of your life? How do you measure day in and day out activities? What reference points do you use?

If we frame our lives around buying and selling or around health concerns or perhaps even just our own family—then everything is seen through the filter or context of these issues. On the other hand, if we are consistently reading, thinking about and usefully employing God's Word, then whatever is happening in our lives has a Bible context. God will not let those reviewed scriptures just wither on the vine. Rather by His Holy Spirit, He can infuse our lives with powerful meaning. But He doesn't seem to do so with those who choose not to "gather with" Him.

Notice the last part of Matthew 12:30: "He who does not gather with Me scatters abroad." Why would anyone run away from Jesus? Perhaps it is not running away from Him so much as running toward what we know, what we are familiar with. If we have chosen to frame our lives principally around family, friends, business or any strong but ultimately very personal concerns, then perhaps we aren't choosing to gather with Christ. In a crisis we might actually run away from Him.

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Skip Miller

William (Skip) Miller grew up with a Roman Catholic upbringing, with Catechism classes in grammar school and Jesuit training in high school. These prepared Skip academically for life. But it was enjoying Reader’s Digest in the 1950s—encouraged by his mother—that set the tone for what life was all about. God’s Word—the Bible—is helping him continue that mission.

After a stint in the USAF as a Military Public Health Technician he moved from LA to San Diego to complete college. At San Diego State he began teaching and retired from San Diego City Schools in 2003. While at college he met his future wife, Suzanne, and they attended the World Tomorrow lectures in 1971.

Both like to read widely, write their opinions and study God’s Word. In addition, they have been blessed with two children (10 years apart, Lily and William) who are also accepting the challenge of true Christianity in Satan’s world. They have been blessed with good health—a big help in the job of grandparenting. The whole family, present and future, enjoys camping and fishing for trout in the High Sierras, and after 52 years God still allows Skip to surf once or twice a week.