Ever feel Sucker-Punched?

Ever feel sucker-punched? Ever had your legs pulled out from under you? Ever been totally blindsided? Ever had that feeling that everything was going along pretty good and then WHAMO! (and I don’t mean Frisbee), Life happens and you’re down for the count? I am sure you have, we all have had those experiences and yet we still are surprised by them time and time again. Looking back, these are the times when, once we are on the other side of the crisis, we take stock of what really matters most, we focus in on what our priorities should be instead of what they default to be. We get back to the heart of things, we are thankful to our Lord and Creator for pulling us through and tell ourselves that we are going to live differently from then on, with a fresh new set of priorities and a renewed focus and determination to walk in a manner that honors our Father.

How are you doing with that? Is it working for you?

Or are you more like me, regularly brought back to your knees again and again, thankful for God’s daily attention, provision and protection. Oh, the helpful regular reminders are nice, but do they have to come in the form of: 3:00AM Emergency rooms visits, painful Parent-teacher conferences, disappointing doctors appointments, unfair traffic tickets, unexplainable x-rays, dead pets, broken appliances and uncontrolled vomiting? It can be rather painful to “fall on your knees in prayer”, perhaps that is because we made the mistake of ever getting up from that position of prayer, from laying our life at His feet, from yielding our will to His.

We can’t have our legs pulled out from under us if we are kneeling, we can’t be blindsided if we don’t have a side that’s blind and we can’t be sucker-punched with our eyes on Him. We need to remain ALL IN.