As I put on my boots this morning I realized something…
If you have never worn cowboy boots it may not be evedent and it took me about 3 weeks to realize that boots are like our relationship to God…
You see I can put on tennis shoes, or dress shoes or any other shoe using only my foot and force pushing on the shoe. However with my boots I can push all I want, but I have not been able to make my foot go into that boot all the way. I have to grab hold of those boot straps. I have to pull that boot on by those straps. I can only get into and wear those boots by grabing hold and pulling them on, I can not do it with my foot alone.
This is significant on many levels. The level that hit me this morning is my putting on the boots is like my reliance on God. My foot alone can not put the boot on, but with help from my hands, I can get my foot in. That is the way my life is, if I try to do it all on my own, I will push and push and push and never get any where, but if I ask God to help me, it will be effortless and slide right into place.
The other level of significance is that we are all in this together, as the body of Christ, we need each other. My foot can not push its way into the boot, unless my hands help pull the boot up. My hands would not be able to pull the boot up if my arms did not assist, and my arms could not do it, if my brain did not tell it to. It takes my whole being to do it, just like it takes all of us to do the work of Christ.
So ask God to pull you up by your boot straps, and help your brothers and sisters. We can’t do it alone, but with Christ I and all of us can do all things!
aSacredRebel 