Dear diary 13-7-12 -- The joy of riding with Jesus!
.. It was the most
fun I’ve had in awhile!
I’ve long since forgotten the thrill of riding on a
motorbike – the last time I did was a young teen in Malaysia ..
Though it seemed like a crazy thing to do given my past
record of falls, I totally, totally
enjoyed it!!!
It also turned out to be a spiritual analogy of sorts
.. :D
The driver briefed me beforehand on passenger safety -
I would only feel unsafe if I distanced myself from the driver, so as I sat up
close to the driver, I was safe. I lean as He leans. I turn as He turns.
So long as I trust Him, I’m ok :) .. He knows where
we’re going, and how to best get there at the best speed. :) .. but every
moment I separated myself from Him or was out of synch with Him, it not only
made it hard for Him to drive safely, it put my life at risk too .. how true
that is of our journey with The Good Shepherd!
WOW, the beauty of speeding along in the open air is
really something else!!
All the while being extremely vulnerable to a terrible
road accident, knowing Jesus & His angels were with me transformed the ride
from sheer terror to pure joy!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
…
+ 17/11/12 – went
‘tubing’ on a lake for the first time in my life!
Looks crazy right?!
Again, I had thoughts of holding back given my past
history of being accident prone .. but Papa has been doing a lot of deep inner
healing work in me to break me out of being under the control of such false
labels.
I have often felt that the ‘need’ to “be careful” must
come first before doing anything, and any slight possible chance of anything
going wrong would put me off from venturing out because of my excessively
pessimistic mind that would imagine anything possible going wrong to happen – especially to me.
So you can imagine I didn’t have a lot of fun since
choosing to come under the power of false labels such as “I’m
accident prone” “I’m an accident waiting to happen”
It was an awesomely fabulous experience to be freed...
to have fun!!
Riding the water at high speed in a big rubber tube was
totally fun!! I was hooked right from the start & went back on 3x that day
– twice on my back, the final time on my belly – during which I wiped out …
that was pretty crazy!
.. silly me didn’t know that all I had to do with the
life jacket I was wearing was lie back on the water & it’d keep me afloat,
so I tried in futility to swim to the shore. Thankfully, being around such a
loving family in Jesus, they stopped and drove the boat around to pull me up
and teach me how to float! :P
Again, more spiritual analogies flooded into my spirit
from the experience :)
I sure was grateful
that when I couldn’t save myself in the middle of the big lake, my brothers in
Jesus came to rescue me and teach me that all I needed to stay afloat in the
water was, quite literally, to relax – just lie on my back and my life jacket would
do the rest!
Isn’t it just like that with the saving work Jesus has
already done for us? We could never save ourselves from drowning in the lake of God’s fury, and yet because of Jesus’
death & resurrection for us and as
us, all we need now is rest – relax on His finished work and give
up our silly useless efforts at saving ourselves! What an awesome picture of
faith – resting the full weight of my confidence in His grace to keep me &
hold me :D
Unfortunately, since my body wasn’t used to such
jarring fun, I woke up quite sore in a way I’d never known before! So back to
rest & recover some more.
I’m so grateful for how fun nurtures our spirit &
brings it alive! May I not neglect this vital way of caring for & feeding
my spirit ;)
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