Float

I told you that my word for this year is “Hold.”  Well, I have a new one for you — “Float.”  This is the crazy word my friend  has chosen for this year.  I just had to laugh.  I have to admit, this is the first type of picture that came across my mind:

What do you think of when you hear this word?  I thought maybe I had misunderstood what she was saying.  But no, the word is “float.”  

Then we got to thinking this through.  She said that God wants her to relax, sit back a bit; let Him work in her life.  He wants her to see that all her planning, arranging, manipulating and organizing is not His Way.  ”Float.”  Get in the stream of life and “float.”  Let it flow — let Him move you where He wills, without your help.  I loved it.  Now I had a new picture in mind:

Float

Isn’t it beautiful and peaceful?  I thought of some of the things Beth Moore said in a Bible Study recently.  We were reading about Mordecai’s report to Esther that some of the guards were planning to murder King Xerxes.  In relaying the message to Xerxes, perhaps Esther hoped the King would honor Mordecai.  However, although the account was written in the Chronicles of the Kings, it was promptly forgotten.  Was she disappointed that her planning hadn’t worked?

Certainly she was greatly relieved that disaster was averted, but after going great lengths to give Mordecai the credit for the revelation, Xerxes seemed to overlook him completely.  Esther led that royal horse to water, but she couldn’t make him drink…[sometimes] nothing takes more discipline than giving someone information without telling them what to do with it…Information served with a heaping side of personal agenda almost never turns into the meal we planned…Sometimes providence can be defined as times when God trumps your perfectly good plan with one of His own.  –Beth Moore, “Esther,” pg. 55

The beautiful story regarding Mordecai ends with the fact that although Xerxes had forgotten him, God hadn’t.  The recognition of Mordecai came later in the story, in some of the most dramatic and entertaining scenes in God’s Word (in my opionion).  

God’s word to us is to “Hold onto Him” and then to “Float.”  Let Him do the things only He can do — in His time and His way.  Let Him perform a much greater work than we can ever imagine.  

My dear friend wrote to me the following day.  She had googled the word “float,” and here is the surprising first image that appeared.  I think this picture says it all!  This is what God really had in mind when He said to “Float.”

Float

~ by Juli Jarvis on April 13, 2009.