Ok, well I want to post something right now even though it may not be the best time or the wisest choice. I have had all sorts of things running through my head that I wanted to study and get into and eventually put down here. I don't have time obviously, because its 12:30 AM and I need sleep. For the last hour and a half I have been doing rewrites because I didn't do them earlier. I didn't do them earlier because I forgot that I had them. I forgot that I had them because that is only the second scripture memory that I have ever failed and I am not used to doing rewrites. So anyways. Talk about distractions. Not only was I getting distracted like crazy but as it got later and later I began to fall asleep. Not for long, only like 20 seconds to 2 minutes but I would just write for a minute and then I would snap my eyes open and start writing again. It sucked. I still have one more to write too. Sigh... Oh Well. The question is, did I fail because I didn't study or did God intend for me to fail so that I could get a much better grasp on this verse for the future?
So, one thing really quick that I have been bouncing around and that I don't need to meditate on and research more before I write it here is a quick analogy that I got during our prayer for Real Life. I don't really know if it is a tale but that sounded cool. It started when I was praying against sexual sins and pornography in particular. I thought of an illustration I saw (at the encounter retreat). In it a guy had a single piece of yarn wrapped around his wrists. He broke it easily. Then the second time he went back it was two pieces of yarn and he broke it easily again. The third time it was four pieces. Then he had some difficulty breaking it but he did. Then the fourth time he had a whole bunch more and he was unable to break it. Soon he was in strong bondage and wrapped tightly in the rope. It simply symbolizes how the sin entangles us more strongly the more we do it.
We are like that. It particularly pertains to sexual sins but it also works with all other sins to an extent. They all combine, all of them as a single, easy rope that we can break but as we go back over and over they grow. Soon we are wrapped in ropes and unable to move and eventually it becomes an entire cocoon. If we stay there we will change from the christians we started as into something dark and dirty. Something that smells foul and produces no good fruit. I believe that we can lose our salvation if we stay in that cocoon for too long. But there is hope. When we cry out to Jesus he is there to save us. He rescues us from that cocoon we were in. He breaks it open so we can crawl out. Once we have been set free everything is not perfect though. We still are crippled and baby christians. That is when we should begin to surround ourselves with Godly things and things that will challenge us to grow. We should read the bible, surround ourselves with Godly friends and accountability, and begin to work and pray in the spirit. As we do those things we begin to weave a new web of super light threads around us. They are very easy to break out of. But, as we wrap ourselves tighter and tighter in these things we begin to be transformed. Our minds are renewed and we are changed from glory to glory. In the end we emerge from this new cocoon as a beautiful butterfly, free to soar the skies and live in the freedom God designed us for. Then people will see us and wonder what it would be like to be a butterfly. We won't even have to speak because the testimony of our lives will be so powerful.
I want to be in that second cocoon. I want to be a butterfly. I want to be a person that brings joy to people around me without even having to say anything. I want to soar with the freedom that God wants me to have. The freedom to fly where the spirit nudges me without being hindered by any ropes that try to hold me down.
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