At work and clearly I am suppose to be working, but I had to write this. A friend of mine sent me an e-mail with a message that I often times forget. I was thankful for the reminder...So the email read as follows:
Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth's rite of Passage? His father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. He is
required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it. He cannot cry out for help to
anyone. Once he survives the night, he is a MAN.
He cannot tell the other boys of this experience, because each lad must come into manhood on his own. The boy is naturally terrified. He can hear all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely be all around him. Maybe even some human might do him harm. The wind blew the grass and earth, and shook his stump, but he sat stoically, never removing the blindfold. It would be the only way he could become a man!
Finally, after a horrific night the sun appeared and he removed his blindfold. It was then that he discovered his father sitting on the stump next to him. He had been at watch the entire night, protecting his son from harm. We, too, are never alone. Even when we don't know it, God is watching over us, sitting on the stump beside us. When trouble comes, all we have to do is reach out to Him. If you liked this story, pass it on. If not, you took off your blindfold before dawn.
Moral of the story: Just because you can't see God, doesn't mean He is not there. "For we walk by faith, not by sight."
Its like a child. A child doesn't know any better so they are forced to rely on their parent to guide them.
Its like air, we can't see it and at times we can't touch it but we know its there.
You know sight is deceptive. You can't see beyond the surface and as people always say things that look good aren't alway good for you. (kind of like that piece of cake I had for lunch...lol). We live in a world of cynics, and its hard to have faith in things that we can't see, touch or feel.
Do you think that if we had more faith in not only ourselves but others that the world would be a better place? Maybe this is wishful thinking on my part. I know you are going to tell me that all people have a hidden agenda, so its virtually impossible.
Man this faith thing is a trip. All I know is that when times get hard its all I have to rely on. Its a scary thing, relying on something that you might not be sure of. But when the one thing that you have been hoping and praying for comes to pass you cannot deny the power of such blind faith. God is a good God. He knows the desired of my heart and he know the needs of my soul, and I know that what he has in store for me is for me.
God, I can't see you, I can't touch you, but I know you are always there. And I have to apologize because sometimes I forget. Why? Because I get so caught up in what I am doing, and in what I want that I push you to the side, when you make me your constant priority. But this time you're my priority and relying and trusting in you is my goal, its a tug of war at times because I don't want to let go. But I am loosing my grasp, and this is my trust fall trusting that I will fall in the arm of the one who cares for me most....
-Signed
Walking by faith and not by sight...
