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Trusting God is like learning to dive (illustration)
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/12705e5d-0b2b-4efc-99de-e735dc38c4fb/146E7A14-1B1C-4855-998B-58F0EE2C339D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.vinceantonucci.com/2009/05/diving-or-following.html" href="http://www.vinceantonucci.com/2009/05/diving-or-following.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.vinceantonucci.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.vinceantonucci.com/2009/05/diving-or-following.html"><DIV> <A href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xSJ05bUvE_8/SgrMFmuUs5I/AAAAAAAAAgY/T_xXTTFwd6w/s1600-h/diving.jpg"><IMG border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335301105240028050" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xSJ05bUvE_8/SgrMFmuUs5I/AAAAAAAAAgY/T_xXTTFwd6w/s200/diving.jpg" /></A>The other day I was teaching my kids to dive. I kept saying things like, "Trust me. Just do what I say." But if you remember learning to dive, there's some fear at first. "Will my face smack the water?" "Will I do a belly flop?" That fear will lead you to pull back rather than letting yourself fall in. And here's the irony: Pulling back will cause your face to smack the water and you to do a belly flop. <SPAN>So the only way to experience the pain of diving is if you're afraid of the pain of diving.</SPAN></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.vinceantonucci.com/2009/05/diving-or-following.html"><DIV>I wonder how much following Jesus is like that? We need to trust God and just let ourselves follow, but fear sometimes causes us to pull back. And it's pulling back that will cause us to experience pain.<SPAN> So the irony is that it's </SPAN><SPAN>because of</SPAN><SPAN> our fear that we experience the pain we're afraid of.</SPAN></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/146E7A14-1B1C-4855-998B-58F0EE2C339D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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