I have been wanting to write about this for a while.
As a civil engineer I use the program AutoCAD almost every day. One of the most crutial commands that exists is the "Undo" command. You can try out a certain way of design or presentation and if it doesn't seem to work out you can just undo 5,6,...1000 times to get right back to where you were. This inspires some risktaking in design and drafting. I have also found that this manner of thinking expands beyond my drafting and into my daily living. Sometimes I step out to try new things or change things and then, quite naively am shocked that there is no undo command to return things to normal. The most important thing I have found about this mentality is that I rarely regret it. Life is to be lived and to tak e chances even if I take them naively.
Many people consider me to be a "fix-everything" handy man and wonder how I do it. I have found that 90% of fixing something is having the courage to open it up and have a look. I believe that life is similar. To see the greatest things in life I must have the courage to step out and have a look and I have realized that things are not nearly as scary as they seem to be.
If anything I am glad that I have this inate sense of abandon. It keeps me in a "childlike" faith that is willing to follow God in the sketchiest of situations.
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1 comment:
Eric,
Thanks for some great insight. I have been pondering the word "abandon" a little over the past couple of weeks, realizing that it likely holds the key to true service to Him. In order for someone to completely abandon themselves to the cause of Christ, it has struck me that he must release everything. Just like when someone yells, "Abandon ship!", the thought is that a person must release everything, not hanging on to a sinking ship, or anything else for that matter, in order to be pulled away to something "bigger" or "better". I tend to try my best, though, to hang onto the ship until I actually "see" the rescue craft, rather than trusting that He has already sent it. I wrestle with blind and complete faith, but I see so much of who He is when I release everything.
Someone shared recently about the thought of a "living sacrifice", but from the view of an animal while alive trying to get down off the alter. This causes me to think that in order to be a true "living sacrifice", we must choose abandon and faith regardless of the fire, heat, ridicule and pain.
Thanks for causing me to think and absorb so much of what He wants to say to me, and so many others. I appreciate you and all that you are doing to reflect Christ in a profound and clarifying way!
Blessings,
Duane
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