Sometimes getting through the wall at hand is about daring to re-shape yourself for what is needed.
Mark 10:24-26 (NIV)
The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, "Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."
We have been speaking about walls, specifically those sent to stop us or crush us, that God says will not prosper. Our challenge is always to get to the other side of them. Sometimes that is about finding the ladder to get you over, or digging a tunnel that will get you under. But other times it is about looking at the shape you need to be to get through it! Referring back to the game show I mentioned called Bring on the Wall, success for the contestants is based on their abilty to reshape themselves to the cut out in the wall that is coming toward them. Their flexibility to reshape for each new wall is what gives them the success every time.
We need to always be flexible enough to reshape ourselves to take on the position needed to get through the wall at hand. Maybe that position is prayer, or praise, or maybe standing in faith? Today's text confused me for many of my younger years – I would sit there as a kid thinking, "How can a camel get through the eye of a sowing needle?" Then one day I found out Jesus was referring to one of the gates into Jerusalem, one of the gates that would get the traders and salesmen of the day through the wall and into the city to trade. It was so narrow that they would have to unpack their camels to get the camels through, then repack them the other side. That made so much more sense to my over active imagination!
Hey, Champion – to go where God is leading you next may mean you need to unpack, or shed some stuff – baggage you no longer need!
We should be ever shedding stuff on our pilgrimage with God: attitudes, habits and stuff that wont do us any good where we are going next. Lighten your load, go through the wall at hand into the next chapter of your God-ordained adventure. You wont even miss the stuff you leave behind because of the lightness you will know!
Andy
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