I absolutely LOVED the "Chronicles of Narnia" movie. People at the movie theater, however, did not like it as much (I suspect, I was the reason :)) You see, during the whole movie I had Scriptures poping up in my head and out of my mouth without control. I surprised myself with the knoledge of the Bible I had. You know what I'm talking about? Almost every scene touched my heart in a different way. When Aslan roared and the queen sat down, I told my husband, "there you go- "every knee shall bow, every tongue confess.." And when I couldn't think of a Scripture, I just said aloud, "that's my kinda God!".....anyways, in that movie it was said , "is He safe? of course not! but He is GOOD!"
I thought about it as I prepared for the Bible Study last night. It is true, our God is not that safe , He requiers a lot of risk, but boy is HE GOOD!!! I spoke to my ladies and asked them, how much risk would they take to know His goodness?"..Sometimes to know His goodness we will need to risk something, to step out of our comfort zone just a bit. Sure we can be happy with just "ok", but you see an "ok" was never God's intend for us.
I remember going on the beach when I was a little girl and playing in the water in the "safe zone". I went just deep enough to walk on the sand with my hands, then I yelled to my mom , "mom! I am swimming! Can you see?" ..my head above the water, my body on the surface and seaweed between my fingers. I wonder how many of us as Christians do the same? We pretend to "swim" on the deeper end and appear like we know what we're doing but have no clue what it is like in real life and what a freedom it is to swim on the deep side of the lake. To let Christ -the Living Water hold you, allow His Spirit to rock you on the waves of God's breath, no seaweed between toes, no shells, no sand under feet- and THAT's risky...but again, is HE safe? probably not, but HE IS GOOD!!!!
So, beloved, get you swimming gear on , will you swim with Jesus?
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