19 When anxiety overtakes me and worries are many,
Your comfort lightens my soul.
Memory of the Month: Proverbs 15:1-A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Today's reading: PSALM 113-115 1 CORINTHIANS 6
Learning to Fly
Riding horseback through the brush and under trees can be dangerous. We have seen it on TV and movies all our lives. The rider who is not watching is knocked off his or her mount as they were watching behind them.
I remember learning how to quickly 'duck' under a low limb or thorny vine while running a horse though the woods. I also remember how I would drive the old dump-trucks down the rock-bottom creeks and find myself ducking as the brush would hit the windshield. I would see it coming and even though there was no danger of being hit I would duck. And still today, fifty years later, I duck if something brushes against my windshield.
The point is that we learn how to avoid trouble and steer clear of danger. We develop reactions to approaching danger and this sticks with us over time.
Why do we still run a horse full speed through the woods? Why do we rush headlong into what we know will be sin?
It is exciting? To get raked off a horse and hit the ground at full speed is fun? To come so close and escape is exhilarating? I guess.
But the longer we live, the more we learn that to avoid risk is to avoid pain.
But-in taking those chances, I did learn how to ride well. I know what it is to ride a horse, bareback, full speed and let go of the reins with arms extended like wings-flying across an open pasture. I have flown in small planes with the pilot trying to scare me and have worked some huge heavy equipment and nothing comes close to riding bareback with no hands.
That is how it is in the hands of God. We must learn how to duck the obvious trouble in life as God carries us but we must also learn how to let go and trust God as He shows us the joy of His flight. This is reality. This is not fiction.
Isaiah 40:31 English Standard Version
31 but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary;
they shall walk and not faint.
I still duck. It has been fifty years since I flew on a horse but I still know how to duck.
God wants us all to fly and He teaches us all how to avoid sin but we must let go and trust Him.
1 Peter 5:6&7 6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. 7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
We can either miss this joy of flying or we experience it in God's hand. Which will it be-for you-this day?
You know how to duck-you know how to fall-you know sin-learn to fly.
...because He loves us...
Father in Heaven,
I confess that I fear pain and failure. Teach me to trust and fly.
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