Author Thoughts Today – Hurled – 091525
Have you ever side-armed a flat stone across a still pond and watched it skip? The harder the stone is hurled, the more it skips before giving in to gravity and slipping into the ultimate destination – the water of the pond. A Life of Faith is a lot like the relationship among the stone, gravity, and the pond. We are the stone. We get hurled into life circumstances, sometimes violently, and sometimes by our own doing. The Holy Spirit represents gravity with His presence as constant as the pull toward the surface of the pond, which, by the way, means the Kingdom of God.
I’ve been the stone hurled by life, sometimes self-inflicted, and have fought against gravity to resist His relentless pull toward the final destination – the water of the pond. Was I resisting gravity or avoiding the water, or both…for different reasons?
My faith relationship is much like the stone with numerous skips across the water, depending on how hard I was hurled, or caused myself to be hurled by my own actions. Every time I strike the surface of the water, I fight gravity, where the pull of God tells me, “Stop fighting. I’ve got this. Trust me.”
And what do I do? I shun His offer, glance off the surface of the water, and glide back into the freedom of the air only to fall back toward His embrace of Living Water. Repeatedly, attempting to regain my flight plan, but with each skip on the water becoming a little shorter, more of my control gives way to His gravity, leading to the surrender to His relentless pursuit of me.
Ultimately, I give in to Him after worldly proof that being hurled into life’s circumstances and only skipping across His love and Living Water do not represent a Kingdom strategy and cannot be maintained without Him. I know I’ll be hurled many more times in this life, but I’m done skipping. I’ll hand over control and depend on faith to swim to the current, where I’ll always have Someone I can trust.
However, being hurled can be a positive thing where the Spirit speaks with a calling, and you’re hurled into a Kingdom opportunity that may be intimidating, causing hesitation or resistance. Funny thing, though, that hesitation only exists when you are in the air between skips on the pond. Listen for the still small voice of God saying, “Stop fighting. I’ve got this. Trust me.”
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Peace! G.