God's Tender Trap

  • Jill Cannon
  • Apr 7, 2010
  • Series: Infusion Blog

After the snap of the trap and the wham of the idea of how to serve, I marched up to John Alwood on that last Sunday in Feb., 2010 after Matt's sermon, with my Crowded House idea.   He took a step back.  I could see the wheels turning.  Then he threw a meeting at me:  ZIP!  I caught that one and began to run with it.  Here I go --to a meeting.  This would make the 1, 348th meeting in my life --not another please.  I learned a lot from that first and then I was thrown another meeting: ZIP!!  I caught the pass again and ran with it determinedly.  I'm glad I did because this second meeting had prayer, well defined purpose and food. I did have a lot to learn about Crowded Houses; their structure, culture, and goals and so I left feeling blessed.

I have been snapped in God's tender trap, whammed  with the idea of a plan and zip-sprinted toward a goal.  I should be exhausted this early Easter Sunday morning  But, no, I have been made, once again,  to lie down in His green pasture,  As I write, though I fear the experience will leave me because of my writing of it, I am being baptized with a water that gives life.  This water rolls over me in gentle waves.  It is a quiet time of blessing and my soul is restored.

How easily I could have missed this tender baptism.of His sweetness.  If I had stayed away from Church that last Sunday in Feb., 2010; kept my heart closed to Matt's preaching  of the word; side stepped the trap; gave up a good idea ; and refused to run the race; but then   where would I be?