Unbalanced

You know those exercise contraptions that look like a half ball that a person stands on to improve their core strength and balance?

Yeah.  Like that.

You can't relax when you're standing on something like that.  You are constantly wiggling, wobbling, bobbing, falling.   You are unbalanced, off-kilter, out of control.  Perhaps with practice you finally feel you have it all together.  But really, a slight breeze or friendly nudge from a friend and Whoops! there you go.

The only way to really be sturdy is to grab on . . . to something or someone.  Or step off.

Sounds like life, eh?

Life is a wiggly, wobbly, bobbing sort-of adventure.  We are forever unbalanced, off-kilter and out of control.

And if we're not . . . if we think we've got it all together and under control . . . we only need a slight breeze or nudge from a friend (or snide remark or fried engine or overwhelming loads of work or death, disaster or disease) and suddenly all we want to do is step off.

However, "stepping off" of life is not a livable option.

So . . . we grab on.

Unfortunately, most things to grab on to are standing on their own half-balls of unbalance.  That doesn't work so well.

There is One, though, who IS balance.  But we don't grab onto God's hand to be balanced.  We grab on in dependance.  Our self-sufficiency is replaced by complete dependence on the All-Sufficient One.

Life just doesn't work unless we're reaching out our hands . . .

for Jesus . . .

for Life.