Thursday, January 10, 2013

OPEN WATER (01-10-13)


Mark 1:17
“Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.”

I once owned an aquarium.  I was really excited when I started setting it up, putting the water and then finally the fishes.  I started out with the goldfishes as they are easy to take care of.

And once they start swimming, I thought they were very happy in their new habitat.  Until I observed that they would just go around in circles, limited by the glass walls.  There was even a time when one of the fishes tried to “escape” and jumped out of the aquarium. 

I just saw it on the floor – lifeless.

Our lives now, as we know it, are limited by the things and people that we see and go out with.  And depending on the experiences and people that we interact with, we live really on a very limited space of glass walls.

And the Lord knows what and how we feel about it.  We try to struggle against the norm.  We try to escape from the reality of it all.  But as we do it, the more do we end up lost and “lifeless”. 

He is trying to reach out to us, but we continue to struggle to escape from Him.  And when things get rough, it will be His fault and not ours.  Still, the Lord wants to catch us so He can give us a bigger space where to live our lives – not just better, but the best; not just great, but the greatest.

Allow yourself to be caught.  Let Him bring you to a bigger, unlimited aquarium where you can swim and swim and swim with Him.  Life should not be just a four-walled prison, but rather an experience of total commitment to His word and a life worth living for others.

Let us pray +

Almighty Father, catch me.  I am already tired of swimming away from you.  I am already tired of trying to make things happen my way.  It is now time to make things your way and so I may experience life fully as I serve You forever and ever.  Amen +

Let all his angels worship him.

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