Got It!

I remember learning how to play frisbee! It was very difficult because I had (and still have) no hand eye coordination. Catching balls, frisbees, keys, anything that is tossed or thrown to me I inevitably miss. I do however make a good effort to catch the "thing" it always ends up through my hands an on the ground. With frisbee I could prepare to receive the disc, I could get my hands ready, and the disc would slip right through, my hands just didn't work right to get closed on time. I spent most of my younger years bending over to pick up the frisbee just to be able to throw it to my older brother, mom, friends, whoever, as quickly as possible. And to my amazement it didn't (and still doesn't) matter where I threw that disc the person on the other end always made the catch. Plus if we were playing with a large group of people (something they call ultimate frisbee now), someone would always use "got it" if the disc was on the move and everyone was moving toward it. And everyone else would stop and allow that one person to catch the frisbee.

I remember too, trying to catch snow flakes when I was growing up. Whether in my hands or in my mouth, I never seemed to catch very many. Now, where I grew up the snow is plentiful and easy to catch, it just always seemed like everyone else caught more than me. It's not as easy as it looks. Neither is catching water! I mean it looks simple enough but when you really try to do it, it's just not that easy. You definitely can't holler "got it" to any friend around you when you're catching snow or when your using your hands to get a drink of water from a faucet (glassless of course). Of course you "got it" or at least for a few seconds before the snow melts and the water finds a way out of your hands.

This morning God spoke to me. Not directly but He did through our worship pastor during worship. The Holy Spirit moved Kevin (worship pastor) to let me (and I'm sure others) know that the troubles that I have to let go and give it to Him and do now what He is asking me to do. I've been praying for faith, God's faith to fill me with His faith for healing of my brother. This has been continual every morning, whenever I think about my brother, almost all the time. I finally stepped out in faith to send my brother a letter a very hard thing to do. But it still didn't relieve this feeling that I couldn't get my prayer to God about healing for him. This morning God clearly stated "Got It, now move on to where I want you to be. Let me take this over for you."

Have you ever tried to catch God? How about Jesus or the Holy Spirit? Their not that easy to catch especially when running away (even when I didn't realize it I was). There's no catching involved! Really there's not. I am slowly, extremely slowly, learning this. I don't know how to "not" catch. I've spent my whole life trying to learn how to catch. Keeping my eye on the ball, closing my hands at just the right time over the frisbee edges, and now I don't have to do that, no catching involved.

What I do have to do is give, give of myself. I have to surrender, surrender to His will and to Him wholly. I have to wait, wait for Him to show me the way, the answers. Wow, how do I learn to do that? How am I suppose to just expect whatever God throws at me I'll be able to catch it? I already know that I can't even physically catch anything how do I catch what He will toss to me?

Faith, not mine His. He took the lead in my life, not me. I caught it but I didn't know it. Get this, I didn't even have to call out "got it", I just .... got it.

God knows, He understands when others don't, He heals when I can't, He holds hands when I'm not there....Got It. God comforts, even those I can't touch, He is the rock, when I can't do it anymore, He catches life, when life is more than I can deal with....Got It.

What a release of weight and a filling of faith!!