Last Friday and today I was told a very good analogy that I have found to apply directly to myself. My friend Nicole was telling us how she is one of those people who likes to take all of these "balloons"- taking people places, feeding people, listening to people, and doing things in general for others. The thing is, both she and I are like this and we just take all of these balloons and hold onto them and we just keep taking more and more balloon strings. Pretty soon, we're floating away with all of these balloons we're holding onto and God is standing there telling us to just hand some of those balloons over to Him. And we stand there and say "NO! They're MY balloons! I can HANDLE it! I've got this!" Then we just keep floating but without those balloons, we don't know who we would be. If we were to just hand them all over, we would be so lost and unsure of what to do next.
Nicole and I both have something else in common. Our greatest prayer is that our family members would be saved. But if we stop and think about it, even though it would cause us to praise God even more, we should already be praising Him as much as we would if our greatest prayers were answered. So the question I've been faced with this past week is "can I give my balloons to God and I mean really and truly give them to Him, not just with my words" I sure hope that I can learn to do that! The only thing is, I absolutely LOVE doing things for others and even if it stretches me so thin that I think I'm going to break, I still do it for them.
Also tonight, we touched on the topic of lukewarm Christians again. JT told us that in the Bible, the strongest words ever used in Biblical Times was when God said that He will vomit/spit us out of His mouth because we are lukewarm. There is nothing for leeway there. Lukewarm is obviously absolutely revolting to God, so why do so many people think that being lukewarm is alright and acceptable? But then again, who are we to say that someone is lukewarm or not? If we try to decide that, we are judging them and we will be judged according to that. It's like judging someone for being homosexual or for being a liar. In my opinion, homosexuality is just as much of a sin as lying is. Who is to say that one sin is bigger or worse than another?
A lot of these things have been weighing on my mind lately and it's one of those "balloons" that I have to let go of. The only thing I know these days is how great my God really is and how much He wants us to want to be caught by Him.
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