I am at a gathering for senior high youth in the SW Texas Synod. Peter Eide is here to lead worship and concerts, and tonight he gave a wonderful talk about how we are all able to seize our destiny and grasp the feather and follow God…
He told us a story of a king whom the people loved. Anything this king would do would be followed by the people. He was well loved and followed by all in the kingdom. No one questioned him, or thought bad of him. However in this kingdom there was a problem with dragons. The king was an expert dragon killer, but he could not risk his life for his kingdom and so had devised another plan. He asked that all the people of the kingdom gather to here this plan. He gathered the people and as he was about to come out the trumpets blasted and the people cheered. When the king came out the people cheered even louder. He explained how he was an expert dragon slayer and how he had come up with a great plan to rid the country of the dragons. He stood over the people on a balcony and looked down on his people. He pulled a feather from his pocket and said, he was going to throw this feather from the balcony and on whomever it landed, the king would bring into his kingdom and train this person to kill the dragon. The crowd cheered wildly. Then the king threw the feather. It floated out and down, then caught by a gust of wind rose again and flipped and floated in the wind, it went up and down for a while until the crowd finally noticed and a man looked up and knew it was coming to him. The man watched as the feather floated towards him and just before it landed on him, he blew the feather back up. The crowd looked at each other and wondered about this, but as the feather got close to another they blew it, and so on through the crowd. They blew it up and away from them. Soon people started to leave because they had seen enough of the feather being blown away. The king watched it all from the balcony, and even watched as the feather finally made its way to a stopping point on the ground…
Isn’t this the story of our lives and God’s call? Isn’t this the way we usually respond to God? The plan sounds great… for someone other than me! We think it sounds really good until we realize that God is asking us to do something. This is the point we need to leap out in faith and grab the feather before it even gets to us. God I am ready to go and follow you knowing you are going with me, and you take me as I am. Just as I am, you accept me, and claim me and call me, just as I am.
So are you going to be a feather blower, or a feather grabber?
aSacredRebel 