NOT recommended!

Not recommended! We heard that suggestion getting off the boat. Of course, I am married to someone who said, they didn’t say we couldn’t, they just said, not recommended. I have no desire to walk on a sandbar that is highly recommended that I do not walk on. It’s not something that tempts me at all. Yet, there are so many things in life that God says as we get off the boats in our world, and head out into our day “I wouldn’t recommend that” that intrigue me!

We find all sorts of reasons to do the “not recommended” because we see it as exciting, or fun, or perhaps just because it wasn’t recommended, seems like a green light to try it. I have no clue why it wasn’t recommended that we walk on the sand bar. Perhaps because it wasn’t safe, maybe because it’s government property and probably the biggest reason is there is no reason to. Often just because something exists doesn’t mean we need to conquer and put our flag on it. Along with the “not recommended”, there are plenty of things they told us to do when we got off the boat. Yet, that sandbar kept calling me to wonder, why it had other parameters.

God give us a wide avenue in which to walk: the recommended things in life that bring us life, hope and joy more than we can ever fully take in. Yet, we look at the “not recommended” things and start drooling.

“I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.” John 15:5. Simply put, it’s recommended that we abide in him. Yet, we see the not recommended which takes us apart from him, and we just want to know what it would be like to step onto the sandbar.

Enjoy today in the things God has given, recommended and blessed your life with. Those sandbars in life will be there, we don’t have to look or wait for them. And trust the people God has put in your path that reminds you what isn’t recommended. Someones we just need someone standing there as we get off the boat reminding us where to walk and what isn’t recommended.