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A Luge Ride Is Like Life
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007 (message contributor)
A Luge Ride is Like Life
While we were away last weekend, we went on the luge at the top of the gondola ride in Queenstown. You go up on the gondola to the hill above Queenstown. The restaurant and café has a luge track running around it.
For those who have not seen it or been on one, the luge is a small cart which is very low to the ground. It reminds me of a go-cart without an engine.
You sit on this cart to go down a steep slope.
We, all four of us, listened very carefully to our young instructor. We had to, because our lives depended on it (Not really, it was all very safe.)
He told us to take hold of the handlebars in front of us.
Then he gave us three main instructions:
1. If you let go, he said, your luge will stop suddenly: Don’t let go
2. If you pull on the handle bars, you go forward and gravity takes you forward. You will be able to steer by turning the handlebars to the left or right.
3. If you pull back hard, you brake and can come to a controlled stop.
You need to keep tension on the handle bars all the way down the track.
So what you do is sit on this thing, which was about as big as a café food tray for me to get on, and you trust that what you have been told is safe, and that if you do what you have been told, you will get down the concrete slope through all the twists, turns, corners and bumps to a safe end.
Life’s like that
Do you trust what Jesus is telling you in His word?
What are you doing with your life’s journey?
And anyway where will it end?
Will it be a good end or bad?
Life is for living with its tensions and troubles. We live trusting God to see to our needs as we focus on keeping our lives pure before Him and serving others.
I think living the Christian life is like a luge ride, you have to stay on to get the benefits.
Don’t let go, hold on in there. Stay on for the ride
Keep pulling on the handlebars and ride with the tension on.
That way, you get to go along, and under God’s guidance, you can steer your way through all the turns, twists, corners, bumps and hills to the controlled end, and all to God’s glory.
Will you stay on to ride with Jesus? Amen.
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