It’s Easter Day the day Christians celebrate Jesus raising from the dead after being crucified on the cross. I’m sitting in church listening to a young man named Nick Vijicic. He was born without any legs or arms, and he has a smile on his face from ear to ear. His website if you want more information is www.lifewithoutlimbs.org.
I’m reading a book; the truth is I haven’t read any of it for about 2 months. I was telling a friend I was reading it and he said get ready for a crisis of faith. He went on to say that it would stop and make me rethink what I believed. So I did what a lot of us do, at least I hope I’m not the only person that does this. I stopped reading the book and avoided it completely. I wasn’t ready to have my beliefs rethought.
One of the things I do know about myself is when I find a new passion that’s all I want to do. As a result I limit what I put my interest in, to limit myself and my time. I don’t feel that what I’m doing I’m doing well enough to start something new. Am I making sense?
My wife was telling some friends of ours this week that when we first met, I used to say to her when we were skiing “if you’re not falling, you’re not skiing hard enough. I was praying with some people this morning and Greg in his prayers ask God to help us not be failures and he asked for God to help pick us up to keep trying. We are not failures, we pick ourselves back up and keep trying. We don’t just lay there and say woe is me, I’m a failure, I’m going to stay on the ground and give up.
That’s what I saw in Nick this morning I can only imagine he has asked God many times to help him to get back up and keep fighting and trying. I’m going to start reading that book this week, what will you do that you’ve been avoiding. If you are having troubles ask God he will help you.
Ask.
