I love
the story of how John Ortberg took his then ten-year-old son parasailing. The man driving the boat said he could ascend
400, 600, or 800 feet. “How high above
the water do you want to fly?”
John
said, “There was a pretty big price difference, so I wanted to steer him toward
400 feet.”
Then
the son commented on how the whole idea was a little scary. John said, “It struck me that when I was ten
years old, being lifted 800 feet up in the air behind a speeding boat over a
deep lake might make me swallow extra hard.
And I wanted him to be free of fear, so we talked through his options.”
The boy
thought it over a few minutes, and he finally decided, “I'm gonna go 800 feet
up. I might be scared when I go up there
at first. But I’m going to do it because
the ride only lasts a few minutes but once it’s over, I’ll have it forever.”
I think
if GOD had anything to say to you now, it might be this, “The ride only lasts a
few minutes. ‘As for mortals, their days
are like grass; they flourish like a flower of the field; for the wind passes
over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.’”
“In the
vast eternal scheme of things, your life is briefer than you could possible
imagine. But whatever you do in faith,
every time you trust ME, whenever you act in risky obedience and jump in
response to MY invitation – that you will have forever. Go ahead and jump.”
Only
one life will soon be past,
But
only what's done for CHRIST will last.
The sad
thing in life for so many successful people is that they have given their whole
life to climb the ladder of life and when they get to the top they find it was
leaning against the wrong wall. Make the
decision to go for the dream that GOD has for your life.
Just a
thought from the front porch…
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