We bend over the washing machine. We bend to scoop up a toddler and we bend to slip on shoes.
Can our hearts bend as much as our back does?
I want to live a bent over life. A low life. I want to live on the ground, in the mud puddles with others. I want to come down from the sycamore tree and walk beside Jesus, dine with Him, confess my sins there on the ground with Him. I want to live among life's crumbs and ant hills and stones. I want to live bent over, looking into eyes, wiping up the spilt milk, pulling the weeds.
I want a bendable heart. A bendable mind. A bendable will. I want to allow Jesus to bend me in ways only He can.
Because Jesus lived low, among the lowest. He lived an ordinary life for many years. And most of all, Jesus came to die. Can we choose that life too? Dying to self - daily. Crucifying self is a critical role in living a bent over, low life. Jesus is the only One that can teach us how to live so we can die.
In a low life, you never look down on anyone, instead you look across or up to them. In a low life, you can see the sky, the stars, the sunsets at the best angles. In a low life, you live out of vulnerability. Jesus still abides among the low.
Maybe the low life takes more than we got and yet maybe that's the whole point because then we take more of Jesus. Maybe living down to earth is really what our hearts all crave. And maybe the most fulfilling life is in the low.
And at the end of the day, let's bend our knees beside our beds and ask Him to keep bending our hearts more and more so we can live the bent over, low life Jesus lived.
Lets go lower.
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