Beach Lessons

I recalled as I watched the surf, that if your faith and hope are focused solely on God then you know what it’s like to have your feet firmly planted on solid ground. If your faith and hope are directed toward material matters and worldly acclaim then you are far out from shore standing on your toes in the ocean. When you become tired and ready to come back to God’s comfortable shore, the waves of the world are of no help. They may be going the way you wish to travel and for the moment may lift you with hope at their crests. But these waves carry nothing with them. They will go forward by themselves, leaving you to the mercy of the current.

We delude ourselves to believe that after spending a long time in the ocean we won’t desire solid ground beneath our feet.