Jump In!

 

My young daughter  is in swimming lessons and one thing she is supposed to be working on is jumping in the pool.  The instructor has asked me not to “pull her in”- it’s best if she can jump.  But she doesn’t want to jump- she wants to reach out, hold onto my hands and have me lift her in, she’s not into the free fall.  

 

I try to convince her to jump, but I feel for her.  I myself am enrolled in lessons, spiritual lessons.  One of my exercises is letting go of my plans and dreams and freely jumping into God’s plans and dreams for me.  But I don’t like to let go; I don’t like free falling into what can feel at times like water rushing over my head.  

 

If she jumps, I  will not let my daughter drown; I can be sure that if I jump freely into His will my Heavenly Father will not let me drown either.  He assures me in Jeremiah 29:11.

 

“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”  Jeremiah 29:11 (ESV)

 

The assurance that His plans for me are good makes it okay to jump, even if it means at times the waves of life rise over my head.  It means I cling to Him and not my own thoughts and plans to help me stay afloat when I feel as if I might go under.  He can be trusted.

 

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.”  Job 42:2 (ESV)

 

Am I willing to let go and let God?