End of Your Rope?

Do you feel sometimes (or all the time) like you just can’t go on any more? Like you have physically gotten to the end of your rope? Maybe you feel like Zacchaeus – you are just too short to fit in or get what you need. We have all probably felt this way at some point or another. Why?

Because we try to do too much, have too much, want too much, and we try to do it all alone. We want to be content but we just can’t find it. We don’t want to get complacent, but it seems hard to avoid it…AAAAUGHHH!!! Yea, me too!

The world says we can buy, find, or compete to get what we really want, and once we do we will have all we ever needed. Until we get there or get it ourselves, and then there is a newer model or a better version of what you just got. That is not fair!

Maybe you are using everything you think you have, and just don’t seem to be getting anywhere? Or have anything left? Maybe you are just using the wrong rope by which to get what you think you need? Wrong rope? Nice analogy pastor man…but I want you to think about this:

“Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.” Ecclesiastes 4:12 (NIV)

We were not designed to go it alone…we are really better together. Two people can get each other’s back by standing together, and add a third (maybe Jesus?) and the difficulty to break your rope becomes much harder! You were not designed just for you to get as much as you can and face all that comes at you alone. Relationships are the most valuable resource we have, and living them out in community is the purpose of the local church.

What is missing to keep you from running out of rope might not be that you need more of your own, but that you need to have others in your life that make your rope stronger...just saying.

Be Blessed