I know I would have harmed my body if I grew up up in a time like this. I watch the kids with their skate boards and skim boards and I just know my knees would be scarred from surgeries and my head would have concussions and I don't know what else. The young guys that are part of the family I am visiting at that moment were not satisfied with the thrill of skimming and spinning on the flat water so they found plans for a ramp to build from the internet to increase the thrill factor. See the picture below which is only half the ramp. One already has a gimpy knee from another situation but tweaked it again with this activity. We love the thrill of life and many seem to seek moments with an adrenaline rush. People jump out of perfectly good airplanes, bungy jump from bridges, leap off cliffs holding a kite, and other novel events just to feel the excitement and rush of fear that fills them and makes the heart pound.
Why then do we back off from the fear of telling our story of God's love for us, about the moment we knew in our heart that God not only made us but loves us and was willing to die for us. Why don't we rush head long into the fear that comes from this choice. Why no plunge into an adrenaline rush when can tell people about God and accomplish something much more lasting than a one eighty on a skim board. I think God wants to know why????
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