36 "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?" 37 And He said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind." 38 "This is the great and foremost commandment. 39 The second is like it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself"
Matthew 22:36-39
As many of you know, I love cartoons, all cartoons. Yesterday as I was flipping through the channels, I stumbled on the cartoon “Futurama”. I decided to watch it for a while. The episode was about saving this parasite that was near a Black Hole. It made me think about what a Black Hole is. I decided to look up Black Hole and this is what I found out:
A black hole is a region of space in which the gravitational field is so powerful that nothing, including light, can escape its pull. The black hole has a one-way surface, called an event horizon, into which objects can fall, but out of which nothing can come. It is called "black" because it absorbs all the light that hits it, reflecting nothing, just like a perfect blackbody in thermodynamics. Quantum analysis of black holes shows them to possess a temperature.
I was like WOW…. Nothing can escape from a black hole not even light. It absorbs everything that hits it and turns it into nothing. I mean that is so powerful….nothing can escape it. It made me think about relationship that I have with people. Do you have friends who seem to dominate your time and are always needy? Could they be a possible Black Hole in your life? Could you possibly be a Black Hole by monopolizing someone else’s time with your concerns?
I thought about my life and how at times I could be selfish and so self absorbed with my self that I seem to forget about others. I do not do it purposefully but I do it none the less. God’s greatest commandment was to love him with everything you have and the second one was to love your neighbor as your self. God felt if you could do those two things then everything else would take care of itself. We should always be aware of others but not to the point where you are being taken advantage of. There is a healthy balance between both points. So….the question for today is Are you being sucked in to someone’s Black Hole or are you being a black Hole? Try to let other shine…remember even light can’t escape from a Black Hole!
Phillippian 2:1-8
1If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. 3Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 4Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: 6Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, 7but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death even death on a cross!
Questions: Do you have any people in your life that could be categorized as Black Holes? Are you being a Black Hole in someone’s life by absorbing all their time and energy without giving back? How would you escape from being in a black hole (unhealthy relationship) with someone else?
