I can hear the music in my head --do do do doo dodododododooo do do do do --- haha
No but really I skipped class a bunch freshmen year of college to play this game.
As I was talking to a friend today I realized... life as a christian is kind of like this game.
i mean i'm not a short italian man. ...
but sometimes I feel like I ate a mushroom and got bigger when God grows me.
Sometimes i'm having a mountain top experience and I feel like i have star power.
Sometimes I feel like i keep running into moles and plants that try to eat me but usually I find away around them or I master them.
There are sometimes I feel like i have fire power... the things that used to tempt me don't anymore.
Sometimes I fall down a gap in the game and God has to pick me up and put me back in the world.
Sometimes I get stung by the obstacles in life and it either makes me smaller or makes me fall.
Sometimes I clear through a phase in life and get to the castle and jump all the way to the top of the flag pole only to reach the next level and feel like I'm in over my head.
Sometimes God shows me secret passage ways to skip some of the hurt of the world.
Sometimes I go through big trials that feel like castles.
Sometimes I feel like I'm battle bowzer when spiritual warfare is rough.
Sometimes I feel like I'm underwater and just paddling to try and get out.
Sometimes I feel like I'm jumping around on clouds picking up tons of gold coins whether thats learning a lot or just feeling lots of blessings.
I'm always going through all of this though not to get to Princess Peach but to get to Christ.
but you know what. In the game I always found a way to beat bowzer and it usually wasn't hard. Sometimes it took me a little bit. But I usually figured it out.
The same is true with us when we are being met with spiritual warfare. Sometimes satan tries to attack us. he tries to make us less effective. but in the end- though sometimes a little harder than others there is always a way out. There is no level too hard just some take more practice. And each level we pass we find we get stronger and better at jumping, dodging obstacles and finding new blessings (in mario it was turtle shells and wings and frog suits. in real life its so many more things that help us make it through the level. whether its good friends, a word of encouragement, or simply mercy from God.)
Hope you can follow this train of thought. I thought it was a cool thought the Holy Spirit gave to me today. Something that helped me with my day.
:)
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