reDUX

The word redux means to bring back to prominence or importance that which has been forgotten or pushed away.  Basically it means bringing something back to the front burner.  Sometimes I think we tend to forget the importance of things and replace them with something exciting and new.  

Kind of when a junior-higher gets his first girlfriend.  His friends get placed on the back burner of importance.  He forgets those that strengthen him and those that will hold him up.  He turns away from his closest companions for a pretty smile.  He might not know the girl well, but in his mind she is all that matters.  I have seen this too often, and regrettably it also happened to me too.  But when all comes crashing down, those back burner friends are the ones you go running back too.

  

The back burner items in adult life and more importantly as a Christian seem to be a little more potent than childhood friendships.  We as adults tend to place family, friends, and rest on the back burner as we continue to cook our lives with the drive for success and accomplishment.  Rob Bell says that as Americans, we worship at the alter of success.  He says that we find our self worth in what we produce.  He later attaches the concept of rest and sabbath, and bringing back to importance rest and refreshment with family and friends.  A redux of sabbath.

Other areas that need a redux are more difficult to talk about.  They need more time to explain and careful wordings to not be mistaken.  But I leave it to you, what other areas in the Christian life need a redux of importance?