Push Me
Who hasn’t sat on the swings and enjoyed the mindless motion after that first push of going back and forth, back and forth.
Even better yet, as a kid, to get that fulfillment and never have to exert energy at all except to say with enthusiasm, “Push me!”.
Most of us have seen the row of metal balls on a string where you pull one back and it hits the others causing the one on the other side to pop out. And the process continues back and forth, back and forth.
Science would explain it as kinetic energy, something being in motion and potential energy, the virtue of position relative to others.
Our lives are sometimes like a pendulum.
It feels like we have no control over the swing or events happening in and around our lives. The swing goes back and forth, back and forth.
Peter was one of the disciples who was outspoken, quick to respond, and very action orientated. We could maybe say he had the personality of an adventure seeker and he experienced some amazing things at the side of Jesus.
Yet he, on the other hand, also experienced hardships, prison, ridicule, failure, etc.
Like a pendulum, one day he said to Jesus “I will never leave you!”; then shortly after, as the pendulum swings, he denied Jesus three times. On both sides he continued to find relationship with Jesus.
In 2 Peter he writes from prison in Rome:
“For His divine power has bestowed on us [absolutely] everything necessary for [a dynamic spiritual] life and godliness, through true and personal knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.” (AMP) 2 Peter 1:3
He goes on to speak in verse 4 of the opposite sides of the pendulum (divine nature and a corrupt world).
Our lives dip back and forth between the darkness and brokenness of this corrupt world and the bright, hope filled promises of God’s kingdom.
As life swings back and forth we find our position in a relationship with the God of this universe and we find the motion of life to be ongoing day by day according to His divine promises.
And maybe every once in a while or even daily we stop and ask God to breathe life into our journey and it might just sound a bit like a little child simply saying “Push Me!”
Blessings & Wisdom,
Pastor Glenn
Kinetic energy – energy which a body possesses by virtue of being in motion.
Potential energy – the energy possessed by a body by virtue of its position relative to others, stresses within itself, electric charge, and other factors