Sideliners

Sideliners

"We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with. But we are "harmless," and therefore unharmed. We are spiritual pacifists, non-militants, conscientious objectors in this battle-to-the-death with principalities and powers in high places. Meekness must be had for contact with men, but brass, outspoken boldness is required to take part in the comradeship of the Cross. We are "sideliners" -- coaching and criticizing the real wrestlers while content to sit by and leave the enemies of God unchallenged. The world cannot hate us, we are too much like its own. Oh that God would make us dangerous!"
- Jim Elliot

The importance of bubbles

From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 'For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'
Acts 17:26-29

Anyone who has ever been involved with children from parenting to any professional capacity knows that there are those times when your younguns' for various reasons just lose their focus and well you've lost them. No matter how good the subject is, no matter how entertaining you are, they are off in la la land and you need to do something to recapture their attention.

Time to bring out the bubbles.
Seriously, who can resist them? Have you ever seen a child with a bottle of bubbles? They can have had bubbles 100 days in a row and yet when you open up that bottle and blow through that wand it's as fascinating as the first time. Forgetting all else around them. Tripping over toys. Running into walls. Just to get to that soapy sphere before it breaks.

Would we chase after God with the same wondrous intensity? We all lose our focus sometimes. Take our eye off the ball and as a result need an intervention from God to reset us. Worse yet are the times we think we are ok because we come to Him with our sophistication and acquired wisdom and so called maturity and we think we're impressing God, when in truth He is more pleased with the ones who chase after Him with no pretense and simple abandon. You know...tripping over things, running into walls etc. because of our attraction to Him.

Not perfect. But perfectly passionate.

The difference is that God is a lot more rewarding than a bubble. (Lol.)

And a lot easier to catch.