The Bouncy Castle

As I learn more in my walk with the Lord, I realize just how much I don’t know. I told my son that sometimes it feels like I’m jumping in a bouncy castle. I’m jumping along just fine and I think I’m doing ok. Then wham, I’m knocked down or into the wall. And at times I even fall flat and just don’t want to get up for awhile. My son calmly said, “But mom, there is nothing sharp in the bouncy castle.” Wow, he’s right! You may get tossed about and even take a hop or two backward from time to time. But “there is nothing sharp in the bouncy castle!” So, don’t be discouraged. Just keep feeding on God’s Word. Keep learning, keep growing and keep moving forward. And even if you need a moment to pause and regroup, whatever you do…don’t stop jumping!!!

(This story was written with insight from my son, Evan Johnson.)

Acts 17:26-28 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

2 Corinthians 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

Proverbs 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

Psalms 40:11-13 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me. For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me. Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.