Be A Bookmark

People are like bookmarks.

          Or at least, that’s what I’ve started to think, for many reasons. For instance, everyone is double sided, and you can only see one of these sides at a time. Also, everyone is made up the content that is displayed on the outside, and a whole lot more that you can’t see just from the surface. Continuing with this thought, we are all stuck in one place in our lives, the same as a bookmark can only be stuck in one place in a book at a time.

          Like bookmarks, we’re all useful and different. We’re all stuck into different worlds, different lives, and display different content.

          Yet, remarkably, we’re all the same. Our greatest, overall purpose is the same from person to person, all around the world. We were created to do the same thing. Like a bookmark’s purpose is to hold your place in a book, we were all created to glorify God and love Him and be His.

          And, like bookmarks, sometimes we stray from our purpose. Bookmarks can end up on the floor, in drawers, under beds, on top of refrigerators, outside, and in who knows how many other places. When they aren’t fulfilling their purpose, they’re useless. They become bent, ripped, torn, dented, and ruined. Crushed by the weight of all the things around them, stepped on, and forgotten.

          When they are used for their purpose, however, they’re lovingly, safely pressed between two pages. They remain straight and, when properly cared for, unbent, unripped, and unsoiled.

          Likewise, when we’re not fulfilling our purpose, we can become crushed by the weight of things in this world. We can become those bent, ripped, broken things, laying forgotten in some corner of the world.

          However, when we’re fulfilling our purpose as God’s children, He carefully cradles us in His hands. He protects us, takes care of us, and mends us if we stray from His Word and become bent.

          Don’t be a bookmark under the bed.

          Be a bookmark in a book.