HEAD TO HEART

As I watched Al Roker go down the zip line today,on TV, I once again had butterflies in my stomach! BIG futterblies,as my Daddy use to say, as I recalled the day I had to go down the zip line again, at Camp Gravett, on a Physical Education teacher's workshop day. Now, I truly did think it would be a cinch! I was all hooked up to the guide wire, so that absolutely nothing could happen, but when you are 40' high up in a tree, on a tiny platform, and somebody, who knows what they are doing, tells you to jump, do you honestly think you would happily obey?......... I think not!!! I had all the head knowledge, to know I was safe and secure, in the hold of the guide wire, and could safely jump..........all I had to do was put my trust in the instructor and the guide wire,.... and go! I just hadn't gotten the head knowledge to my heart, and you better believe, I was scared! (I finally did it though...........but never again though!)
Sometimes, we Christians, can be that way, in our belief. We have the head knowledge about Jesus, but it just hasn't gotten down into our heart, and that's where it needs to be, for those high places we get stuck in, and have to jump off of, in life!
God is my one and only zip line,day in and day out......
Even up 40' high or more...........
Becky,
March,2004