Free Falling & Freedom

To those hungry,

I love cliff diving!

There is something freeing about throwing your body off a cliff into the unknown. Some call it idiotic I call it living. Some are paralyzed by fear looking over the edge; I’m liberated and released from the confines of my body. When I cliff dive its like taking my soul to a playground. There, somewhere in the few seconds between running and the splash, my soul is free to explore, to wander, to be joyful, and to climb to new wonders.

I have problems with people, especially Christians, who complain that they are always bored. To be honest I hate the word. To me boredom is an indicator that your life has gone sour.

 Two nights ago I went to my church’s college service where our college pastor spoke these following words, “There is a common lie in Christianity: God redeems us to bore us to death!” Amen to that. How often do we hear the excuse that Christianity is boring, or that it’s a bunch of        rules?

My response to those excuses, “Where is that even biblical?”

Where in Peter’s story of going from fisherman to fisher of man is there a trace of boredom? Where is the boredom in Saul being struck blind, then becoming one of the most evangelical Christians this world has or will ever see? Or better yet keeping with Paul, where was the boredom when he survived a shipwreck, snakebite, and watched a prison door suddenly unlocked itself? Where were the early Christian’s boredom when they watched as water was turned to wine, saw the blind see, and saw the dead rise. We pay for entertainment like this. We spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars a year on vacations, movies, theme parks, etc. We squander money and our time trying to kick start our hearts.

All the while God is offering us the opportunity to live a life worth telling.

“I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” John 10:10

Jesus, the author of life, is looking to begin life not end it.

Jesus, the one who sacrificed himself for the sake of sinners, will take you on the ride of your life. He’ll take you to the pit of a lion on a snowy day like he did with Benaniah. He will invite you to heal, and be healed. He will call you away from a life of fishing and bring you into a life of adventure.

The question is…will we let him?

Merely,

Chris Gerac

“I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.” 1 John 5:13 NIV