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"Imagine you are a child standing on a wide beach with brilliant white sand where you get to build sandcastles all day. Big ones and small ones, and really tricky ones that are super elaborate and take many days or weeks to build. You build with great enthusiasm, fully aware that at any moment a big wind or wave will wipe out some or all of your sandcastles. But this doesn't bother you because you will just build another one...
"Do you ever mistake yourself for the sand and cringe at the prospect of being wiped out by a wave? If you do, you will suffer with the crumbling of the sand. But that isn't who you are. You are the boy or girl on the beach, enjoying and using the sand.
"You are neither the sand itself nor the sandcastle you live in, which is temporary and will soon wash away.
"You are playing IN the sand, not OF it.
"In the same way, you are IN the world, not OF it."
Covid, elections, race riots, unemployment, isolation, "new normals" ... These are storms like many of us have never experienced. But while the wind and the waves can wash away the castles we've built and even the earthen vessels that we live in, they can not touch the imperishable Spirit of God living inside of us!
"To the extent you think you're the sand or the sandcastles you build - your relationships and wealth and pleasures and enemies and houses and cars and clothing and religion - you will be filled with anxiety when the wind and waves come.
"To the extent you're aware that you're the son or daughter of the Father, on the beach for the express purpose of building sandcastles, you will build them with pleasure.
"The beach is stunning and a wonderful gift. But never mistake yourself for any earthen vessel that will soon return to dust in this life." -The Forgotten Way, Chapter 8, Ted Dekker
Please enjoy this song based on Ted's book, 'The Forgotten Way', and I unashamedly ask you to SHARE THIS POST AND SHARE THE SONG. This is a message that the world desperately needs right now!!!
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21 окт 2024
