I had a dream the other night that actually woke me up. I had dreamed that I did wake up but had lost all six of my senses. You may be saying “Gary, you only have five senses: hearing, touch, taste, sight, and smell”. You are right but I believe that common sense is just as important as the other five. More on that later.

Can you imagine the impact on my life if the dream were true? I would not be able to taste or smell my coffee or even know if it were hot. I’m not even sure if I could find my cup or would know when it was against my lips. In my life, this would a bad thing.

Now, think about a young mother with a newborn baby and the ramifications of not having her senses as she tries to nurture her child. How lost would she be in a world like that?

But now consider, without our senses, we would not smell the “aroma of Christ”  in our fellow Christians (2 Corinthians 2:15). We could not touch the hands of Christ as he wants us to (Luke 24:39). We could not “hear what God says” (John 8:47). We could not “taste and see that the Lord is good” (Psalms 34:8). And in Proverbs 3:21-26, Solomon encourages us not to ” lose sight of common sense and discernment”. I’ll address that sense in a later post.

God has given us these precious gifts to use for him and others. Yet too many times we complain about a variety of things that have no bearing on life here and eternity later but are just baggage that we carry through life.  I would say that we should be grateful that we can worship him with ALL the gifts he has given to us.

Just my rambles,

Gary