Gym for dummies

"Here, stretch out your hand.. like this" she said.  (a forward action like reaching for something in front). Now do this with the other hand. Look into the mirror. She pointed at how my left shoulder simultaneously raised itself frontward when i reached forward with my left hand.

Relax your shoulders. Do it again.

I couldn't believe my eyes. But the wall size gym mirror was not lying. My other shoulder (right) remained (still) when i performed the same action with the right hand,  while my left hand would inadvertently cause my left shoulder to lift up / forward every time.

tNcc Church Camp 2015 (Where's the Pole)

Where is the Pole? (The week at tNCC Camp 2015)

We were still talking about the previous night’s message by Rob Rufus. It made good conversation as we lunched together at Bukit Gambang Church Camp (2015); each shared our take on the analogy, especially the one about the birds perched on the high tension power lines; blissfully unaware of the kind of voltage that was coursing underneath their feet (claws). Nothing happens to them because there was no ‘ground’ connection and therefore the birds were unaffected and their lives continue as per usual.  And so the same way the Christians have become so accustomed to a powerless Christianity (void of the Acts of the apostles) that we have unfortunately ‘accepted’ what is sub-normal (below par) Christianity  to be ‘normal’. And when the ‘normal’ is upon us, we invariably eye the normal with suspicion, strange, or worse something to be feared. So life goes on ‘happily’ for the birds (of a feather) until one day, one little bird gets too close to the pole (makes contact) and whoosh the power is unleashed. All along the power has been just underneath our feet, but suddenly in one second all have now become conscious of the power (of God) available to us Christians.