Waves

Greetings All!

This week we had the chance to escape to the ocean for a few days. I love to watch the waves. I love the ‘always changing but never changing’ patterns of the waves. I love the movement. It brings me to a place of peace and rest.

As those waves crash on the shore, especially if there are rocks around, they scatter spray everywhere. If you’re close you can’t help but get sprinkled….and often doused!

I have said many times that Christianity is more “caught” than “taught.” That’s one of the reasons I am so adamant about community. It’s a place where the life of Christ can be ‘brought, caught & taught’. One of my favorite theologians, the great C.S. Lewis, once said it like this:

“Good things as well as bad, you know, are caught by a kind of infection. If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire; if you want to be wet you must get into the water.

If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them.

If you are close to it, the spray will wet you; if you are not, you will remain dry.”
– C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

I challenge all of us, especially if we’re feeling dry, to draw nearer to the joy, power, peace and eternal life which is intrinsic in the personhood of Jesus Christ. When we get close to Him, the spray will get us.

Or we can throw abandon out the window and jump in!

Greg