23 August 2007
Frogger
Ahh, the 80’s!
What a completely bizarre decade in our history!
The 80’s were a time of mohawks, punk rock, Brat packs, new wave, rockabilly, Back to the Future, breakfast club, Donkey Kong and Frogger.
Remember Frogger? I do, I was a Frogger wizard (and no, I’m not proud). The goal was to get the little frog across the freeway to the river of moving logs, jump on a log going east then quickly on one going west then east, then you were home free.
Riveting.
In order to get good, you couldn’t simply take a straight line and wait for the cars to pass, or wait for a safe looking log to come along. If you did, you’d be road kill!
No, the good players had to anticipate.
Look three cars back or two logs ahead…
otherwise, it was…SPLAT!
The Christian life is a bit like ‘Frogger.’
There are numerous land-mines along the way. And, if you do not locate them ahead of time and plan for them, and avoid them…your Christian witness will be blown to smitherings!
That’s the bad news.
Here’s the good news.
Discerning the pitfalls, traps and land-minds along the way is really very simple. I like the way Charles Stanley outlined it in a piece he wrote a while back. He mentioned four very simple things Christ followers can do to be good, ‘minesweeper.’
Well talk about each one over the next several days.
5 Comments currently posted.
Jay Foreman says:
Lance Ratliff says:
AMEN brother Jay!
Tom Dwelley says:
That was great Jay! Do you have a blog too? In Hang Gliding, they call the first guy off the mountain the wind dummy. I am so glad as a Christ follower that I always have the perfect example in Jesus Christ!
Blessings Tom
Elizabeth says:
I’ll Second that one!!!!
AMEN brother Jay!!!
melissa says:
The choice to follow Christ, though ever worth it, is marred with landmine after landmine. At least in my walk it has been! I try to follow Christ through them, maneuvering at every turn… however when I fail, it is awesome to know that I have a forgiving and graceful Father to put me back together again.
Thank you Jesus for piecing me back together time and time again.
Mel
A mentor of 6 years who brought me to Christ in 2000 told me this… “Jay, (ie; young grasshopper) would you like to know how to walk across a mine field successfully? ” Now I’m thinking… (great response eh?) Humvee?, F-18 at Mach2 - low level?, go last behind thousands of others?. He being a true man of God says…”Step in the foot steps of someone who has made it SUCCESSFULLY to the other side.”
Did I get it at first? I stood there with my blank “What kind of answer is that?” look.
Then he whispered… “Follow Jesus’ footsteps!.”
That is what a mentor is for. They are concerned about where you are enough to help you get to where you need to go.
Dear Jesus, you know my heart, my struggles, and my past. I ask you to guide me successfully thru the minefields of this world so that I can be with you on the other side. Please don’t let me be a froggy road pizza.
In Your precious Name, Amen
Jay