There's nothing quite like when you run up to that alley, throw that ball down it and watch as all the pins go fying...
STRIKE!
Now imagine you are that bowling ball, shooting towards the pins.
Hold your horses, you might say, bowling balls can't throw themselves!
Well friends, I have some great news for you! We don't just have anybody throwing us down that alley. We have the Son of God. We have Jesus!
Can I get a whoop whoop?!
Jesus will always get a strike. Why? Coz He's perfect. Duh.
Now I don't know about you, but I have never seen a bowling ball sprout legs and waltz down the alley by itself. If you have, get off the drugs, it's bad for you.
Bowling balls need the bowler, and the bowler needs bowling balls.
See that? That's what I like to call a relationship.
God can use you in the most radical and amazing ways! Ways that are thought to be impossible.
But how can He use you to strike when you refuse to let Him throw you, when you refuse to trust Him with your life?
Answer: He can't.
Do you want to be a 'gutterball' at the end of the day, a waste a perfect opportunity to get a strike?
Or do you want to be the ball that's always striking, causing raucous chaos for the Kingdom of God?
Friends, when you give your life to Jesus, you actually are GIVING YOUR LIFE. Not just parts that seem convenient. Parts of a bowling ball are useless. That isn't going to affect the pins at all. You WILL fail if you try to do it alone, walking your own path.
But if you put yourself in His hands, and allow Him to set you on the path He wants you to take down that alley way, we will start to see greater miracles than in the Bible!
Woah, sounds unbelievable right?
WRONG!
That old cliche springs to mind.
"Let go, and let God."
It's time to stop being gutterballs, and time to start being strikes!
(Thanks Andi!)