My nemesis: The Monkey Bars. We moved to Missouri from Pennsylvania when I was in grade school. No playgrounds at my old school, just painted Hopscotch and Four Square games on the asphalt. The new school had it all, including the monkey bars. The other kids had two years of experience crossing the dastardly jungle gym apparatus. They could swing their legs up and through and sit on top. I couldn’t let go of one rung to get the next. And so it is with life. We watch as we think everyone else has mastered it, painfully hanging on where we are because hurt has paralyzed us.
A quote attributed to author/theologian C.S. Lewis says, “Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.”
While there is a debate over whether he ever said this, there’s no debate over its truth. Not letting go makes it impossible to move forward. God has a grand design for your life. Our verse today tells us not to cling to the past. God is making all things new. He restores you through a relationship with His Son. Let go of what you hold onto and take the Savior’s hand. He will make a way in your wilderness, which will be New and Improved.
IT'S A HARnDen LIFE... 