I love it when I get to dance with wonderful partners!
But what do I do? I am not a very good dancer and he is so good -- what do I do? there is no way I will ever be able to keep up with him. I'll mess up every cool thing he tries to do with me. He is wonderful -- I am not.
When I should be having a wonderful dance, instead I am thinking about how terrible I am. How I cannot do what he wants me to do. Then I am no longer enjoying the dance I am fretting about how I am not good enough. And I will with out a doubt mess up more than I would normally.
But if he is so good, why did he ask me to dance? Perhaps he is capable to leading, even leading me. Why would he want to dance with me? Maybe he knows that he is good enough to give me a good dance. Even if I am terrible, he is able. He knows what I can do, he knows what I do not know how to do... yet.
If I will trust him, he can do amazing things with me -- I just have to stop looking at my short comings. And I will get better the longer I dance with him. Dancing with him makes me a better dancer.
If I stare at my long list of inabilities it will never shorten, as much as I long to be a good dancer I will never become one if I do not dance with a lead that can challenge me, show me new things, and help me learn to overcome my fears and lack of ability.
Same with Christ -- He is the perfect lead. But we are not perfect follows. Even still He wants us to follow Him. Why? because He loves up and wants us to know Him and to learn how to follow Him. How to dance with Him. If we will surrender to His lead he will teach us how to follow. And the only way we learn, the only way we become better is not by striving to become the best -- not by fretting over each miss step or trying to perfect ourselves -- it by dancing with Him. Through the presence of God we are transformed into his image, not by our own practice.
But we must dance to become a dancer. You can practice alone all you want, but you will not be a dancer until your are DANCING.
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