April Winslow - Let Go and Let God
I was reading an article, the other day, about tandem skydiving. If you don't know what that is, it's when you skydive (jump out of an airplane with a parachute) but with another person being responsible for making sure you don't kill yourself. My thoughts about that were, "I think I'd rather jump alone than trust someone else enough to pull the cord at the right time." Then it hit me, that's pretty much what we tell God sometimes. Tandem skydiving refers to a type of skydiving where a novice skydiver ("student" or "passenger") is connected via a harness to an experienced skydiver ("tandem master" or "tandem instructor"). The instructor controls the whole jump from exit through freefall, piloting the canopy, and landing. The student needs only minimal instruction before making a tandem jump...You see, God is like the tandem master of our lives. He is the expert, but yet sometimes we try to work out our own problems and conquer our own battles, alone, rather than trust the One who really knows what He's doing, the One who is responsible for making sure we have a safe landing!
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