Today, I am thrilled to have a guest posting here at the blog. I have tried several times over the years to coax this person to offer up a post here, but the answer was always ‘no I’m not a writer’. I would come back with ‘but you have a lot of wisdom to share and I can write. We would make a great team.’ Alas, the answer was always still ‘no’.
Finally, however, I got a ‘yes’. I saw something this person had posted on Facebook while we were on vacation, and immediately hit him up to post that same statement here on my blog. To my surprise, he said ‘yes’. So, I am tickled pink and purple and blue and yellow to have my husband, Greg, offering up a bit of his wisdom here at the blog. He wrote this after he watched me try to swim laps in a pool that was never designed for lap swimming. Please give Greg a big welcome, and hopefully he will write more often in the future.
Leah has been swimming for exercise at the fitness center in our hometown for several years. After a short stroll on the beach while we were on vacation recently, she thought she would swim some laps in the pool before the other people woke up. As I watched her from the balcony above, I noticed that she was swimming left, right, crooked and many times well off of the course she began on. So even as one who swims every week, when her guidelines such as the lane markers and line on the bottom of the pool were not there, she lost her way.
It reminded me of life, and how no matter how seasoned we think we are in the Word of God, when we don’t continually keep the guidelines in sight, we WILL lose our way. We will veer off course and find ourselves in places we did not intend to be.
Therefore, keep the guideline in sight and keep your ears keen for listening for God’s voice.
Let your eyes look straight ahead, fix your gaze directly before you. Make level paths for your feet, and take only ways that are firm. Do not swerve to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil. Proverbs 4:25-27 (NIV)
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. Hebrews 12:2-3 (NIV)
