Can I handle it?

If you are in South Carolina right now…it’s hot.  I mean egg frying on the hood of your car hot!  And with the heat comes dryness, everything starts to dry up, your fishpond, the birdbath, and even your desire to get out in the yard.  The mosquitoes even decide its’ better to die than to fry, and they too stay in the woods.  It is with this backdrop that my story begins, its around 7:30 in the morning and I’m under my garage with my favorite fan, a good Bible study book, and a glass of icy cold water.  I have just planted some flowers in our beds (plant them late and you can get them on sale!) and they are in need of a cool drink, so the sprinkler is running full blast watering the yard, the grass, my truck and my driveway…dontcha think someone could come up with a sprinkler that waters in squares! Ha… anyway, a mocking bird appears on my mailbox…he caught my attention, he was eyeballing the water like a frog eyeballing a juicy blowfly on a friday night!  He looked and lingered, you could see the heat and dryness was playing with his imagination…hmmm…it looks like I can handle it…so after about two minutes he mustered up his courage and dove in…

Well, the water sprinkler won…his fear and intrepidation robbed him of a drink, he simply wasn’t willing to get completely wet, he only wanted the water in his pointy little beak.

Let me put a perspective on this:  WE are the bird, the water is the TRUTH of God’s word.  We need it like a bird on a dry hot day, it’s readily available, and flowing freely.  You can stare, gaze, dream, and watch others get theirs, but until you overcome the fear of getting truth ALL OVER YOU, then you will always fall short.  Paul talking to the Church in Galatia said: in 5:7,

“ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?”

 What is it that is keeping you and I from the truth?  What keeps us on the post always watching others get their refreshing drink, but we live on memories or are in a state of dehydration.  The Father has let us know that the spirit of “fear” was not given by Him, but by our enemy.  The fear God gives is a live preserver, the fear the enemy gives is a life killer. 

 

Hey, jump off the post, its just water, you can handle it! 

 

See ya Sunday…PT