I recently posted this, and apparently the post was deleted. I'm now re-posting it. :) By the way, I apologize for the misspelled title image. At a youth rally last month up in Shawnee, we went skating afterwards. Ice Skating and Roller Skating. I'd only been on either one other time in my life, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. (As you will see.) I'm not great at it, but I'm not horrible either. Although, when I compare myself to the kid who split his head open, I'm awesome at it. Now, this kid would continually fall - and hard. He messed his knee up, and each time he fell.... well, he would leave his mark on the ice. Ultimately, he ended up falling and hitting his head on the wall of the rink. After that point, there was a trail with puddles of blood leading off the ice. We all tried to ignore that part. His problem, aside from a lack of bubble wrap, was that he had weak ankles. When he skated, his ankles would turn in, and he would then be skating on the side of his blade; which turned his skate outward, and he fell... every time. Now, I am not an expert on ice skating by any means... I'm not an expert on anything. However, I have enough sense to realize that you can't ice skate with shaky ankles. Your ankles must stay straight in order to keep yourself up. Otherwise, your skate will turn out, and you will go down. That's why lacing them up properly is extremely important. Tight boots aids in straight ankles. Anyway, as I was skating through the rink, enjoying the fact that everyone else was falling and I was not, just kidding, I had a light bulb moment. Just as you cannot ice skate with shaky ankles, you cannot build your life with shaky faith. The first thing that comes to my mind is the children's song, the wise man built his house upon a rock. Not only is it a catchy (and potentially annoying) little song, it was the actual teaching of Christ while He was on this earth. This was part of the Sermon on the mount. Matthew 7, starting in verse 24 the parable was told. "Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And everyone that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it." The circumstances were the same between both these men. However,one fell, one didn't. The difference is obvious, one choose sand as his foundation, while the other chose the rock. Christ is the rock. He refers to Himself as the Chief Cornerstone. You have two options on which to build your life. One, the crowded beach of the world, or The Solid Rock. The sturdiest foundation is rock. If this decision over what you build your life upon is uncertain, you're in trouble. You can't build your life on a shaky foundation. Your faith in Christ determines your stability through life. Not only in Salvation, as just referred to, but in everything. A lot of people trust Him for Salvation, but nothing else. They place their eternal security upon Him (which is right, by the way), but they then run to the beach to build their life upon it. When the rains, wind, and floods come in your life, that is not the time to choose where you stand. It's before that time. What type of faith you have determines whether or not you will stand when the storms come. There is much said of faith in the Bible. It's an incredible study, in fact. But if there's one thing I know: You can't go through life with shaky faith. Neither, can you ice skate with shaky ankles. This kid I told you about at the beginning of this post, I do give him one thing. He had determination. If I failed that miserably at ice skating, fell every time, and messed my knees up like that, I would have instantly crawled off the ice. Not him. He persevered. He kept trying. He was determined to learn how to skate. This is one this I hope for all of you. Even if it seems you fail miserably in your walk with Christ; even if you fall time after time; even if it results in pain and heartache; don't walk off, keep going! Even if this little boy was a prime example of "How not to Ice Skate", He was also an incredible example of determination, even simply on the rink. And I commend him. I also suggest he get some bubble wrap ASAP!
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