This video was taken when I was helping out with my church's youth group AFTERSHOCK at the Disciple Now retreat weekend at Camp Tadmor just east of Lebanon, OR. This is called, "The Giant Swing." I'll give you some perspective: You're strapped into a harness, your team pulls you 60 feet into the air, and YOU have to pull a little string to activate a quick release. This means that have to reach over and cause yourself to plummet 60 feet with just a cable holding you up.
But as you can see from the video, I did it. I try to see what God is teaching me through different events that happen in my life. I had to think about this one for a week, but here I go:
God has got us from the start. When I would rock climb, I would get about 15 feet up the wall and start saying to myself, "Did I tie the knot right? Is my partner belaying correctly? Is the carabiner up on the top strong enough to hold my weight?" I would talk myself out of climbing any higher. With the giant swing I sat at the end of the cable the whole time, I knew from the start that it was going to hold my weight. We need to believe that God is there from the beginning, even before things get scary, he's holding us up. And God's ALWAYS got his eye on us; he doesn't get distracted.
Our brothers and sisters in Christ are there to support and lift us up in hard times. My friends were the ones who pulled me up the 60 feet. I didn't do any of the work, they were the ones who did it. When I got to the top, they supported me as I prepared to swing. Your fellow believers are there for you. Like we learned at Disciple Now; you need the body of Christ to help you live a resurrected life.
You've got to let go and trust that God is going to catch you. You reach over, pull that quick release and trust that God's got you. It can be hard to let go, to have things out of your control, but when you decide to follow Jesus, he asks you to let go. The only person that can let go is you. YOU have to pull that string, YOU have to let go and give up the control of your life. YOU need to trust that God's got you.
Sit back and enjoy the ride! If you listen really closely to the video you can hear someone in the background say, "I though she was scared?" Yeah, I was scared! I even asked the guy who strapped and clipped me in, "How many people have died on this thing?" But once I released and trusted the cable, I was able to enjoy myself and have a little fun and even let go and relax(I did the "Lazyboy" move)! It was great and very freeing.
The crazy thing was, I had an urge to go a second time too...HA! :-)
How have you trusted that God will help you Soar?
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