TLDR

I sent someone a message not too long ago, and back came their response:  "TLDR."  My first assumption that they wanted me to "take long dirt road" didn't work out too well.  I got creative and started thinking about all the things it could mean.  "toes like dead raccoon," "teeth lost during reconnaissance," and "two leprechauns dis Roseanne" didn't seem to effectively capture the sentiment either.

So I broke down & hit Wikpedia.  I figure, if it's on the internet, it MUST be true...  It is here that I discovered that "TLDR" actually is a universally-accepted text abbreviation for "Too Long Didn't Read."  If you've gotten this far in this post, you didn't know that either because if you DID know, you wouldn't still be reading, because, like me, you have the attention span of a gnat on Red Bull & Skittles.

So here's where I had what I call a very minor epiphany.  For most of us, any printed material results in the knee-jerk reaction of, "too long didn't read."  We just want someone to tell us what it means...so that we don't have to actually invest any of our own time & energy & thought capital on anything.  "Yeah yeah yeah, just tell me quickly cuz I have more important things to do...like watching episode 19 of 'Deadliest Catch' (& someone might catch a crab this time!)"

And so Scripture doesn't get read, and no one knows who God is or what He wants, and we rely on other people to tell us what they think God means.  Yikes!  It has been said that men would rather die than think.  I think that similarly, most of us would rather just not know than have to seek out the truth.  Ignorance is bliss?  Um, ignorance is... ignorance!

Have you gotten this far?  How 'bout His story.  I'm pretty sure that when we stand before Him He will not accept TLDR when we're asked if we read His book.  Or are the answers we want in the ready-to-order stars, internet, or new age gibberish?  1 Timothy 4:7 But reject those myths fit only for the godless and gullible, and train yourself for godliness.

Read.  It's disciplined training.  It's worth it!