Getting Big Air

  Snowboarding, free skiing and other events have been added to the Olympic games in recent years.  These are sports that only developed recently.  People invented these sports.  They invented the equipment; they invented the moves.  Someone did it first and then spread the word.

  Usually these innovators are young people who are willing to try anything.  They don't have a fear of failure (or many times a fear of death).  When they get to a certain age, they retire from the sport to get married, raise families and pursue other dreams.  They settle down; live normal lives.

  I'm not sure as Christians that we should settle down and live normal lives.  We should be the ones trying new things in the Spirit, finding new ways to achieve healing, working miracles to feed the hungry and house the homeless, even raising the dead.  We should be the ones soaring above the earth in the Spirit, being transported supernaturally to other places, getting "big air".  These are radical things in the Spirit today which for Christians should be the new normal.

  For reflection:  What is the new normal to which God is calling me?  Where have I settled for less than God wants?  What new moves does God want me to develop?

  Let us pray.  Jesus, in you all things are possible.  I want to know you and the power of your resurrection.  I don't want to settle for less than you have planned for me and will enable me to do.  I want to keep pressing on toward that to which you have called me.   With you I have no fear.(based on Matthew 19:26, Ephesians 3:10, 13-14 and 1 John 4:18).

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