Slingshot
Have you seen the Slingshot video? My family went with the Runnels family on vacation to DisneyWorld recently. We had a great time and one of the attractions that drained my wallet, I mean that we enjoyed was called the Slingshot. It is a ride that Richard and I found by accident as we were doing our manly duties on the vacation--grocery shopping. We left the house we were renting following the instructions of that bossy woman. How dare you think of Missy and Davelyn--I was referring to the lady on the GPS system that Richard and I have. You should be ashamed of yourself. Anyway, as we were carefully following her instructions (twenty years of marriage teach you to do that), we passed this place with brilliant lights and a couple of rides. As we drove by and saw the Slingshot I told Richard, You have got to be crazy to get on that thing. It is 365 feet high, propels you at over 100 mph, and pulls around 6 G’s. I can handle the G’s and would actually enjoy the 100 mph, but the killer for me is the 365 feet. I don’t do heights.
By my own assessment, I must be crazy because I was on the ride just a few days after my statement. All of us, except the mothers, ended up being crazy because we all rode the Slingshot. It was one of the most thrilling moments of the trip. We even bought videos of our rides. They are so funny! If you haven’t seen them, come by and I will show them to you.
On a subsequent trip to buy groceries, I had the opportunity to offer a diagnosis of someone possibly being mentally unstable in another situation. As I was checking out at the grocery store, I entered into a conversation with the lady working at the register of the grocery store. It was early in the morning so there was not much business taking place. This afforded me the opportunity to talk with her at length about her life situation. Upon inquiring about her relationship with Jesus, she told me that she was a Jew who believed in Jesus as the Messiah--a Messianic Jew. I rejoiced with her in that and then asked about her family. She asked me to pray for her husband and father. They both are Jews and have not come to believe in Jesus as the Messiah. I asked her what her husband believed about Jesus. She told me that both of the read the New Testament and that he believes Jesus was a prophet. It is then that I told her of the potential diagnosis of mental instability.
It is irrational to believe that Jesus was merely a prophet. When considering who Jesus is, He said He was the Son of God. That eliminates the possibility that He is a only a prophet come from God. If that statement is not true, then He is a liar at best and a lunatic at worst. If He is simply lying about who He is, then all the credibility of His words is lost and nothing he says can be considered authoritative. You may consider is wise and poetic, but not authoritative. If He is crazy, then we simply must pity Him for dying a horrible death needlessly.
But as I told the lady working at the grocery store, Jesus is neither a liar nor a lunatic but He is Lord of lords! I asked her to read passages with her husband that make this claim clear such as John 10:30. Then ask him what he thinks about Jesus.
I challenge you to do the same. Most of you that read this article claim Jesus as Lord of your life which is great! What does your life say about His Lordship? Is He the one giving the commands? Are you following His instructions turn by turn as Richard I did with the GPS lady? That is really what lordship is all about--following one command at a time. You don’t even know what lies ahead, you follow His leadership. When you do this it will lead to some of the most thrilling moments of your life.