Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
Definition: A Plus One is a person who accompanies someone to a party or other event when the invitation allows the invited guest to bring another person.
My wife and I were at a family wedding near San Francisco this past weekend, and I got to meet and talk to a number of people I hadn’t talked to for years and some I had never met. Kathleen fell into the latter category, the wife of a family member I hadn’t seen or talked to in decades. She is a high-powered executive who is used to being in the driver’s seat in her business. I laughingly said she apparently was the one who ruled the roost in her family. She did not hesitate even for a second in correcting me. “Oh, no,” she said. “Bob is the one who calls all the shots in this family. I’m the Plus One. Without him, I would never have been as successful as I am today.”
That exchange hung in my mind over the weekend, and I meditated on it all day yesterday. The Holy Spirit revealed to me that this is the relationship I’m to have with Jesus. He is the Number One in my life, and I’m the Plus One. He is the one without whom I wouldn’t be where I am today. In the course of events in my life, I wouldn’t be alive today without His saving my life on more than one occasion, both my actual physical life and my state of being – who I married, where I worked, my direction after taking early retirement, my healing from major depression, and more and more and more.
How about you? Are you a Plus One to Jesus, or are you still in the driver’s seat of your life? Do you seek His guidance and direction for your life, or do you make decisions and then ask Him to bless them onto good outcomes? Do you complain about the situations and circumstances and people in your life, or do you see God’s hand at work to support you on the path He wants you to walk. As for me, I want to be a Plus One to Jesus and follow Him wherever He wants to take me.
April 27th, 2022 at 4:49 pm
I really liked this! It is a simple, concise explanation of a Christian’s relationship to Christ, as he or she walks through life.