{"id":695,"date":"2007-06-10T20:09:40","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T01:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=695"},"modified":"2009-10-16T20:11:23","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T01:11:23","slug":"today-the-gathering-june-10-the-law-of-leaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-june-10-the-law-of-leaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Today @ The Gathering – June 10, The Law of Leaning"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week at The Gathering I continued our series \u201cThe 4 Laws of Waterskiing<\/a>\u201d with the second law, which is the \u201cLaw of Leaning.\u201d The Law of Leaning states, \u201cHold onto the rope, lean back, and let the boat do the lifting.\u201d<\/p>\n

We desperately need to understand that Christianity is not a man-centered, works-oriented way to do life and prepare for eternity. It is at its heart, a love relationship with God. It is God\u2019s willingness to take the first move to enter into a relationship with us and make promises. For example, the promise in Psalm 37 is \u201cCommit your way to the Lord. Trust in him and he will act.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what the second law of waterskiing is all a bout, isn\u2019t it? Hold onto the rope \u2013 that\u2019s commitment. Lean back \u2013 that\u2019s trust. Let God do the heavy lifting \u2013 that\u2019s allowing God to act.<\/p>\n

The challenge to that is God doesn\u2019t always act when and in the ways I expect or even demand. Committing your way to God and trusting Him is not for the faint of heart.<\/p>\n

How futile it is to join the millions of other weary souls on the \u201ctry harder treadmill.\u201d This kind of try harder mentality is at odds with commit and trust. Try harder is a self-centered, self-help way of living; so ingrained in our culture that we\u2019ve come up with clich\u00e9\u2019s to back it up. I\u2019ll talk more about those in the Dave Rave this week.<\/p>\n

In this talk I spoke about the importance of rest; that to commit your way to God and trust Him is to rest. I used \u201cREST\u201d as an acronym. \u201cR\u201d stands for Relax, \u201cE\u201d stands for Enjoy, \u201cS\u201d stands for Savor, and \u201cT\u201d stands for Trust. I relax knowing everything is covered by the power of God. I enjoy the journey in this give-and-take of try and trust. I savor the seasons rather than wanting life to be something other than it is, embracing it knowing God is at work. And I trust God\u2019s motives and methods.<\/p>\n

This is a great talk. Make sure you listen to Law #1<\/a> so that Law #2 will make sense<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week at The Gathering I continued our series \u201cThe 4 Laws of Waterskiing\u201d with the second law, which is the \u201cLaw of Leaning.\u201d The Law of Leaning states, \u201cHold onto the rope, lean back, and let the boat do the lifting.\u201d We desperately need to understand that Christianity is not a man-centered, works-oriented way … Continue reading “Today @ The Gathering – June 10, The Law of Leaning”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}