I Am No Scatter-Plot.

Which of these 4 images would you say represent our lives best? I'm guessing most people could relate with the graph. Which of these images represents our Christian walk best? Hopefully none of them, and here's why:

Sometimes as Christians we get in low places where things aren't going very well or we continue to fail in our sense of duty toward God, and it just keeps pulling us down into a hole, a low point on the graph where we don't even feel like getting back up.

The thing about getting up though, is just accepting that Jesus dies for each sin you commit and forgives you every time, allowing you to move on. If we try to wallow in our sin and self pity then we are only digging the hole deeper, but when we get back up, we can always make each new peak a little higher on the graph. In that way, I think life should look like a graph that has it's ups and downs (because without the ups and downs of life, as with a heart monitor, we are simply dead) but the graph should also be on a continual rise, never restrained to one level of stumbling.

As we mature as Christians, it is my hope and prayer that we all will become better at getting back up before we reach the same depth of the last ditch we dug so that eventually our future self will not look anything like who we are now (in a great way, of course)!

 

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:

a time to be born and a time to die,

a time to plant and a time to uproot,

a time to kill and a time to heal,

a time to tear down and a time to build,

a time to weep and a time to laugh,

a time to mourn and a time to dance,

a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,

a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,

a time to search and a time to give up,

a time to keep and a time to throw away,

a time to tear and a time to mend,

a time to be silent and a time to speak,

a time to love and a time to hate,

a time for war and a time for peace.

What do workers gain from their toil?

~Ecclesiastes 3:1-9