Did you really think it would happen today???? If you did then we need to talk. The whole subject of Harold Camping and his ”End of the world on April 21st” just upsets me. To think that someone could be so wrong and yet be a representative of Christians in the eyes of the worldly unsaved. It sure makes us Christians have our work cut out for us. I’ve already wasted too much space on this subject.
It’s that time again – time for summer fun. We took the cover off of our pool and this is what we saw.
What a disappointment. Since this is our first year to do this I had no idea what to expect. But this is not what I thought it would look like. This is not what it looked like when we covered it up for the winter. There was stuff in there that I have no idea where it came from or how it got there. Sure, I expected it to look a little different but not like this. I knew it would take a little work to get it clean so that we could enjoy it but I was truly shocked at what we found.
After a little work, removing leaves, adding Shock, filtering and backwashing and vacuuming to remove the trash we were able to see the results of our efforts. Sparkling clean water.
Here comes the life lesson – Aren’t we just like that pool? Things in our life look pretty good and we place a cover over them and forget about it. When it comes time to remove the cover we start thinking about what we covered up. Deep down we know that it’s not going to be just like we left it. And sometimes we are so surprised by what we find underneath. It takes work to remove the ugly truth but once it is gone things look so much better – refreshing and clean.
Many things in our life are like the leaves in the pool and have no business there. We would have been better off if we would have worked harder at keeping them out. They caused lots of damage to us while they were there but it is not impossible to remove them, just hard work.
Some times it takes Shock to get us back to where we need to be. Shock destroys the elements that breed the ugliness making us able to cope with the results and continue the cleaning process.
Filtering is a way of quickly removing what does not need to be there. It may get in but it is removed before any harm is done. And backwashing shakes up things so that they can be swept away forever.
Vacuuming is a maintenance process. It’s one of those things that must be done on a regular basis for the rest of our life. But if done consistently, we will remain clean.
How does your life “pool” look? Have you taken the cover off yet? Remember that you can’t enjoy it until you do. I know that I have lots of work to do but I plan to enjoy life AND the pool. Grab your suit and come on over.
Oh, and about the Rapture... I'm ready and waiting. Are you?
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