Pushing It To The Limit

This weekend our family spent a day (I mean the entire day...didn't leave until the park was closed) with another family at Six Flags! It was so much fun! The moms took the little ones to Looney Tune Land and the calmer rides, the dads took the older ones straight to the heart-stopping roller coasters! Everyone had a blast! We rode Batman, Superman, Aquaman - you get the point.

Six Flags has a new ride this year called Tony Hawk, The Big Spin. It is a roller coaster where the car spins round and round as it goes up and down the track. The signs around its perimeter are Got2B hair product signs, featuring Tony Hawk, with the tagline that reads "pushing it to the limit." I walked by these signs several times that day and each time was challenged by that phrase.

At one point of the day, I felt as though I was living the phrase as I rode "Mr Freeze." I went with a 9 and 10 year old and they were giving me little tips, such as "Expect the Unexpected" and "Keep your head back." So, I took my hair clip out, leaned my head against the head rest and expected the unexpected. And, that is what I got. The engineers that designed that ride truly pushed it to the limit!! The train shoots out (feels like 0-60 in 1 second) and...I can't even remember the first thing. All I know is that I was suspended in air - straight up - and thought I would fall out of the car. The upside down loop is more like the eye of a needle in shape and the train rides the track frontwards and backwards. W. O. W.

The ride is incredibly short but amazingly intense! We arrived back with wind-blown, tangled hair and hearts racing 100 mph!! So thankful they are still beating!

Earlier in the day, Cameron was turned away from the ride because he was just a little too short. Some rides will fudge and let him ride anyway, but I am SO glad that the workers of Mr. Freeze didn't fudge. That extra inch could have been fatal - at least it feels that way!

After riding I kept thinking about that phrase, "Pushing it to the limit." And I wonder, do I push my relationship with Christ and my service to Him to the limit? Do I offer Him every last bit of time, energy and resource that I possess - that He allows me to possess? What do I do when my alarm goes off in the morning? Hit the snooze or use that nine precious minutes in communion with Him? When I find that quarter on the ground, does it find its way in my change purse to eventually get lost in a candy machine or do I offer it to Him to mulitply like the loaves and fish?

Dr. Falwell once preached an entire sermon on the phrase from Scripture, "And He went a little farther..." Jesus, Himself, pushed it to the limit in everyway imaginable. He prayed and then prayed some more. He gave and then gave some more. He healed and then healed some more.

How will I push it to the limit today? How will I go a little farther with My Savior?

How will you?