Tetris, Parables, and Missions
I play a lot of Tetris (which explains my Tetris related posts that pop up from time to time. The site I play on provides a weekly mission that you can complete for points, such as "perform X back-to-back combos" or "beat Y opponents in a multiplayer game." This week's mission was to perform 15 Tetrises in a single game.
15 Tetrises. That's manageable. I started the game and set up my Terminos (the little block things). 1 Tetris. 2 Tetrises...3...4...
The first few were easy enough, but as I racked up points, the game sped up. I couldn't solely perform Tetrises, so I cleared a few single lines here and there, with the occasional double, and kept making Tetrises when I could.
Before I knew it, I completely lost track of how many Tetrises I had performed.
The game sped up so fast, that I stopped trying to make Tetrises altogether. I was just frantically trying my best to simply not "die."
After awhile of proceeding like this, a few thoughts came to me:
1) Why am I playing this game? (I normally play a multiplayer game instead of a single player game)
Oh yeah, I'm doing this week's mission.
2) What was the mission?
..................Oh wow. I don't even remember. But I had better keep clearing these lines or else I'm going to die. What was that mission? Oh yeah...I think I was supposed to perform Tetrises.
3) Well the game's going way too fast to set up the board now. How many Tetrises did you make already?
I have no clue. I guess I'll just have to wait until I die to find out.
It turned out that I did meet the requirement for Tetrises, but you probably don't care about that. That's not the point of this story.
The point is that I had a mission (literally), and I started to complete it but then I got busy. Things became really fast-paced, and I was just trying to survive. And in the midst of the hustle and bustle, I completely forgot what the mission was. Completely. And at the end, I wasn't even sure if I accomplished what I was supposed to do; I had to wait in suspense to see if the computer would tell me "well done, good and awesome Tetris person."
I'm laying it on a bit thick here, but only because I think it's important. What is our mission here on Earth? To love God with our hearts, souls, and strength. To love others as ourselves. To defend the widow and the orphan. To proclaim the Gospel to Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the world. To pick up our crosses daily. To abide in Jesus as He abides in us. To put off the old man and put on the new. To act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly before God.
Friends, this is a lot more than performing 15 Tetrises. For starters, these missions are never actually "complete." And on top of these, we also each have our own missions. There are good works that have been set out in advance for us to do.
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So pause for a bit and think about what your mission is. Have you forgotten it? Have you been making every effort to pursue it? Or has life gotten too fast-paced with Terminos piling up all around you?
And regardless of how you answer those questions, whether positively or negatively, remember this: praise to Jesus Christ who gives us the victory.
15 Tetrises. That's manageable. I started the game and set up my Terminos (the little block things). 1 Tetris. 2 Tetrises...3...4...
The first few were easy enough, but as I racked up points, the game sped up. I couldn't solely perform Tetrises, so I cleared a few single lines here and there, with the occasional double, and kept making Tetrises when I could.
Before I knew it, I completely lost track of how many Tetrises I had performed.
The game sped up so fast, that I stopped trying to make Tetrises altogether. I was just frantically trying my best to simply not "die."
After awhile of proceeding like this, a few thoughts came to me:
1) Why am I playing this game? (I normally play a multiplayer game instead of a single player game)
Oh yeah, I'm doing this week's mission.
2) What was the mission?
..................Oh wow. I don't even remember. But I had better keep clearing these lines or else I'm going to die. What was that mission? Oh yeah...I think I was supposed to perform Tetrises.
3) Well the game's going way too fast to set up the board now. How many Tetrises did you make already?
I have no clue. I guess I'll just have to wait until I die to find out.
It turned out that I did meet the requirement for Tetrises, but you probably don't care about that. That's not the point of this story.
The point is that I had a mission (literally), and I started to complete it but then I got busy. Things became really fast-paced, and I was just trying to survive. And in the midst of the hustle and bustle, I completely forgot what the mission was. Completely. And at the end, I wasn't even sure if I accomplished what I was supposed to do; I had to wait in suspense to see if the computer would tell me "well done, good and awesome Tetris person."
I'm laying it on a bit thick here, but only because I think it's important. What is our mission here on Earth? To love God with our hearts, souls, and strength. To love others as ourselves. To defend the widow and the orphan. To proclaim the Gospel to Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the world. To pick up our crosses daily. To abide in Jesus as He abides in us. To put off the old man and put on the new. To act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly before God.
Friends, this is a lot more than performing 15 Tetrises. For starters, these missions are never actually "complete." And on top of these, we also each have our own missions. There are good works that have been set out in advance for us to do.
So pause for a bit and think about what your mission is. Have you forgotten it? Have you been making every effort to pursue it? Or has life gotten too fast-paced with Terminos piling up all around you?
And regardless of how you answer those questions, whether positively or negatively, remember this: praise to Jesus Christ who gives us the victory.
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