Anchors away
Okay, so we have a checklist for maturity in our Christian walk… Just two simple things. First, really understand who you are in Christ, and second, kill the flesh (sin tendencies) and walk in the Spirit. Great!
If you’re reading this blog, thus the devotionals from Neil, you’re getting a healthy dose of the first – finding out who you are in Christ. Is it what you expected? What were your ideas before about your spiritual identity? How have they changed?
And as for the second, I loved the description – pull in the oars and hoist the sail! (Is that like “too close for missiles, I’m switching to guns”?)
Did you ever ride a skateboard? I confess – I never got the hang of it, but I did live on roller skates when I was a kid. I was told that when you’re riding a skateboard, you don’t try to steer; you just lean the way you want to go, and voila! You’re turning! I’ve been told that riding a motorcycle is the same.
Maybe the reason I never mastered the skateboard is that I’m too tense… Control freak that I am, I feel like I have to do something to control my fate, when all I really need to do is relax and lean into it.
Or, it could be that the crappy plastic skateboard with roller skate wheels on the bottom that I got for my 10th birthday wasn’t the best thing to learn on. Who can say?
Anyway, the goal of the Christian walk is to rely less on myself and more on God. As John the Baptist put it, I must decrease, and He must increase.
Thanks Neil and Michele for the reminder...
ReplyDeleteLess me...more Christ
Less thrashing at water with oars...more sails up
Less head down focused on me...more head up looking for the direction of the wind
Less missiles...more guns
oh wait maybe not that last one.
every time that I lean into God, I feel like Satan is pushing back so my lean turns into a strugle. I get the visual of the football player that is pushing that padded thing down the field.
ReplyDeleteI wish it were easier for me but for now I beleive that God must have big plans for me and Satan knows it so he's making it more difficult for me.
"For I know the plans I have for you", says the Lord, "plans for good and not evil" Jerimiah 29:11
Lord help me to find my lean!!