Reckless Abandon

This past Friday night and Saturday morning our church had a retreat at Riverbend Church in South Carolina. Tom Short was leading the retreat and as we all trickled in on Friday we had a night of worship and prayer. While we were singing a worship song someone's little boy was chasing around a balloon, being ADHD like I am I was watching him as we worshiped. At one point the balloon got away from him so of course he had to get it back, as he was chasing the balloon he knocked over a cup of water, stepped right through the water, and ran into the man leading worship. He was so intent on getting that balloon that he didn't notice any of this but in the end he got that balloon.

This lead me to think about our life with God, so often we are afraid to chase after God because well we might knock over something or mess something up. We care more about who is looking at us and how foolish we might look than trying to be with God. As I watched this kid chase the balloon with reckless abandon I thought we as believers need more of this, a passion so great that we don't allow anything to get in the way. This is the point where normally I would talk about how we need to do this but with maturity and wisdom, but actually no Matthew 18:3 - And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. The heart of a child loves fully without permission and restraint and when that love is applied to God, then there needs not be any restraint or slow and careful inquiry. RUN, CHASE, DIVE INTO the heart of God with full intentionality of finding him and living through him. Live a little more reckless for God today.


- Keegan