The Jump

Should have posted this last year but didn't :(
Here it is now :)
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As I walked to the top I was filled with mixed emotions; excited with a pinch of anxiety, couldn't wait to find out what this was going to be like. I got to the top, my legs were bound securely at the ankles; a body harness fastened round my waste, just in case... though, apparently they had never seen anyone have to use that backup in the last 30 years. I was told how this was 100% secure and how I shouldn't look down etc etc... well, I listened and before long it was time to hop to the edge of the platform.

Whooh! When I got to the edge, I couldn't help but look down.

They were so right, that was such a bad idea.

"What made me think I could do this? Well I know I love it when the adrenaline is at boiling point, but this... I must have underestimated," I thought out aloud. I was told to relax and was reassured that the elastic cord/rope would hold... and breath and ... and ... and ...

"Hmmm, I know I know... I can hear you but man; it's just that it doesn't look like it. I mean, I am just about to jump and fall 44M down there and what's down there? The Nile... and who can't swim? You don't want to know..." By the way, I knew all these facts full well before I signed up for this, it's just that knowing the facts and seeing the facts for what they really are seems to be two different things. Seems? They are two different things.

My arms got weak, my heart was... beating, lol and I could feel my body start to shake. I closed my eyes, took a few breaths to calm my nerves and requested for a push. I figured I didn't have what it takes to take the leap by myself.

And DOOOOOWWWWWWWWWNNNNN!!! I went... my eyes were tightly closed, my fists really clenched and my heart... it felt like it had remained at the top.

 

I can't quite explain this part because I am not so sure what I was feeling. All I know is I was going down really fast and when I opened my eyes to peep, it looked like the water was coming up to meet me instead.

So down... And wooooo I was flying back up again, I lost track of where my heart was coz now it felt like I had left it in the water.

And back up...

And down again...

And now it was starting to get funny

I started to laugh.

This was actually fun!

 

It was amazing...crazily great... thrilling!!!!!

The energy in the rope dissipated and it was done.

Whoa! Was that amazing.

Did I really do that?

But one thing stood out, that moment at the edge; that moment is probably the toughest one.

Woo hoo!!

 I heard one guy say, " This is something you do once in a lifetime. You just don't do this again, ever!"

Another guy said, " When you get to the edge you just have to put your faith in the rope."

Well that sounded quite odd; I mean, faith in the rope? However, in a way so true. you get to the point where you think to yourself, "I am choosing to believe these guys. When they say the rope will hold then it will. They are sure so I'll trust that."

I know I did this to satisfy my craving for adventure and for that adrenaline rush but I thought to myself how faith is much bigger than I thought or had ever realized. How believing is not just some word. Coz looking down there, the thought of jumping; taking the dive, 44M above the Nile, was crazy.

But don't we all have the facts? We quote scriptures; we know what the Father tells us in His Word but when it's time to jump do we? Do we go all out trusting that He will hold us, catch us, be with us?

Do we not try to make the distance shorter, the path easier and I don't know what else. Don't we sometimes choose to go round the other way.

One of the guys got to the edge and I think couldn't take it, atleast not yet... so he stepped back and got unbuckled... it's that scary (he did jump later on though).

Don't we do that too? Get to the point and God is still there whispering, " Child, I am with you" or "Child, let me do this, leave it to me" but fail to believe and trust and walk away? Go do it our way?

Faith is indeed being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. It's trusting completely, believing, having confidence in... it's obedience; it's the life we lead each day. Faith is "basically taking God for His Word and believing the promises He's made." Sounds simple but from my bungee experience, not necessarily.

So each day, the devil will whisper things like, "Look how far down that is, you can't make it, you can't stand up against your fears, you cant overcome those addictions, you're not good enough, you're not strong enough, you don't have what it takes, I mean look; you have an unlucky streak, you always get it wrong, you're dreams are so far from coming true, that's impossible; how many people do you know that have made it taking that path? etc etc" but Ephesians 6:16 says, "...take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one."

Often times you'll look down there and think, "No way jose!" but you will trust, you'll trust in the God of this universe. You'll be certain of what you do not see, sure of what you hope for, only because His Word is true. You'll say, "If God says I will make it then I will coz He said, period. I trust that. He is the rope I am having faith in" ... ... ... then you jump!

This felt really good - amazing :)

Wooohhh!!!

When you open your eyes, you won't be drowning, you'll be swinging above the waters.....man, that feeling is ................ goooooooooooooooooodd!! :) Coz God is always holding you, He is 100% secure :)

#note:it's a journey#