The Merry-Go-Round

Ever been on one? Honestly, who hasn't? Actually, is there anyone in this world who HASN'T been on a MERRY-GO-ROUND??? We all probably have childhood memories of our moms or dads hoisting us up onto the horse of our choice, unless of course you were scared of the horse so you chose the seat. NOT ME!! I always wanted the weirdest looking animal on the platform!

Think about it? Where did the MERRY-GO-ROUND take you????? (This is NOT a trick question!!!)

Yep....it took you right back to where you had started from! Never on a MERRY-GO-ROUND will you get any further than where you started from. It just goes round and round and round, repeating itself, over and over and over and over again. No purposeful destination.....same place, day after day, month after month.

Tonight during the invitation at the end of our revival service, all I could do was pray. As Brother Bill extended the invitation, in my head, I saw a MERRY-GO-ROUND.
OK.....I know I'm rather strange, but I did.

So many people, all across this globe and NOT just those in our sanctuary tonight, have been on a MERRY-GO-ROUND for years, still riding the same ride, content to stay where they are. They're too afraid to get off their high horse and humble themselves to see where it is GOD wants them to go. It's just so much easier staying on their horse, going round and round and round, instead of stepping down and trying a different destination. Fear keeps us on this MERRY-GO-ROUND of life and tightly straps us in to our horses and keeps us riding and riding and riding going absolutely nowhere.

I wondered how many people wanted to get off the MERRY-GO-ROUND tonight and begin anew, but stayed bound to their horses. The same road to nowhere will be where they will always end up until they choose a new way of travel.

GOD is the answer....He's the road....He's the STRAIGHT path....NOT the MERRY-GO-ROUND stuff....the STRAIGHT PATH....the road that leads to JESUS!

Tired of the same old, same old, same old MERRY-GO-ROUND life? Get off of it and try the STRAIGHT path.....try Jesus!