O is for OBSTACLES  

 

I have only been around the “culture” of Pole Vault for a year.  But there is something about the event that has drawn me in hook, line, and sinker.

 

It is not a “Half-Way” event.  You can’t “kind of” do it.  “Indecision” does not help you succeed.

 

When you go for serious heights in the Pole Vault…..it is a full commitment to the entire endeavor…..  You sprint, you plant, you jump, you invert …… there is nothing about it that is half way ……

 

When you commit to it

When you sell out to do it

When you truly jump on the runway and go for it——

You Fly….. And You Come Alive.

 

What am I getting at?

 

So many times the thing in front of us is impossible…..it is NUTS.  Running down a runway to clear a height that is some fifteen feet in the air IS CRAZY.

 

But when you train and fight and struggle and build faith and go for it and walk it out—you come alive.

 

This is the Kingdom of God.

 

He has put a calling on your life that is impossible.  It is crazy—it is nuts.

 

But when you begin to walk out the call…..you come to life.

 

There comes a time when we must all grow up.

 

And growing up involves risk, and faith, and hope, and a love of Jesus that goes beyond anything we have ever experienced.

 

Matthew 17:20  He replied, “Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”

 

Philippians 4:13  I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

 

Mark 10  I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.

 

So I will end with this:

 

Put your screen down.

Defy living in a cloud of apathy.

Quit striving to be without pain and discomfort and failure.

Do not store up treasures on earth….they are flat out garbage.

Do not even entertain the thought that you can somehow make your life better because of another person….unless that person is Jesus.

Quit doubting God’s plan to work through you and do amazing and miraculous things.

 

You have been saved by grace by a God who offered His life as a payment for your sin so that you could walk in FREEDOM.

 

So pick your pole and sprint….jump….turn upside down….and get over that obstacle that is impossible to cross…..and do it in the Name of Jesus.  You were created……and forgiven….so that you could be ALIVE.

 

In The Name of the Father and the

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

 

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Coach J