# “Our boredom is simple blindness” by Michael Reeves

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2021/02/20/our-boredom-is-simple-blindness-by-michael-reeves/
- Published: 2021-02-20T12:00:14-06:00
- Author: tollelege

“Even for Christians, overlooking Jesus is easier than falling off a log, it seems.
We instinctively think of God, life, grace, reality with rarely a pause to have 
Jesus shape what we mean by those things.

We can even have a “Christian worldview” and find Jesus is but an interesting feature
in its landscape.

We can even have a “gospel” and find Jesus is just the delivery boy who brings home
the real goods, whether that be salvation, heaven or whatever.

But that must change if we are to take seriously the fact that He is the beloved
Son.

First, if there is nothing more precious to the Father than Him, there cannot be
any blessing higher than Him or anything better than Him. In every way, He Himself
must be the “very great reward” of the gospel (**Gen. 15:1**).

He is the treasure of the Father, shared with us. Sometimes we find ourselves tiring
of Jesus, stupidly imagining that we have seen all there is to see and used up all
the pleasure there is to be had in Him.

We get spiritually bored. But Jesus has satisfied the mind and heart of the infinite
God for eternity. Our boredom is simple blindness.

If the Father can be infinitely and eternally satisfied in Him, then he must be 
overwhelmingly all-sufficient for us. In every situation, for eternity.

Second, His sonship—His relationship with His Father—is the gospel and salvation
He has to share with us. That is His joy. As the Father shares His Son with us, 
so the Son shares His relationship with the Father.

That is why in **Matthew 11:27-30** Jesus first says, “No one knows the Son except
the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son
chooses to reveal Him” (**Matt. 11:27**).

And then says, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give 
you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in
heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden 
is light” (**Matt. 11:28-30**).”

–Michael Reeves, [_Rejoicing in Christ_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0830840222?tag=toletaupanre-20)(
Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2015), 21.

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