I have come to a place in my life where there are only two options.
1) Live a life like everybody else:
-Chained
-Stained
-Tamed
OR…
2) Live the life I was created to live:
-RECKLESS
If you know me at all you know the first is not even an option. I don’t believe it’s even possible for me to be satisfied with even one much less all of those characteristics characterizing my life. I was born to be reckless. In my heart of hearts I long for adventure…a battle to the death. I am “set apart”. But the funny thing is this…I’m not the only one. We all have a worthy walk…a divine destiny awaiting us, but unfortunately only few of us tap into the warrior within. We allow ourselves to be tamed by our televisions, and live vicariously through Jack Baurer never knowing that if only we opened our eyes we would see that J.B. ain’t got nothin on me, or better yet He who is in me.
You see the greatest lie every told is that the Christian life is boring. It’s meant only for old people who want to try to get into Heaven or for the whack job who doesn’t have the mental fortitude to muddle through their difficulties. If that’s what Christianity is I wonder what Bible I’ve been reading…I must have some how got the unrated version where men and women live passionately, fight zealously, and die without regrets (recognizing they will never die). Or maybe we’ve just been blinded for so long we’d rather settle for lies than grasp the Truth.
We are so good at being blind. We live life apathetically taking the hands dealt to us. Striving for freedom only to find chains. We think we’re in control, but at what point does the puppet realize the strings holding him back…or spy the pernicious puppeteer limiting his each and every move? When we look up. See the Light. Hear the Truth.
And all that leads me here…the drop in. If you’re familiar with surfing (which I wish I really was and pray I will be someday) there is a point at which the surfer is right at the peak of the wave and has a decision to make…go big or go home. At that moment you have the choice to fall back or drop in and ride the wave for all its worth. In life it’s similar you reach a point where you say will I fall back into the mundane and the mediocre or will I drop in and ride this wave for all it’s worth.
This is the drop in.
