Disturbance in the Water

The story is told about a little boy who was out in a pond. He had his little toy boat floating on the pond and the boat began to drift way out. He couldn't get it. A man came by and saw the boat way out in the pond and he did something very interesting. He picked up stones and threw them on the other side of the boat. He threw them beyond where the boat was.

The boy didn't understand what the man was trying to do. The stones were causing quite a disturbance in the water. Something very interesting began to happen. As the man threw the stones out in the pond, they created ripples of water that moved backward toward where he and the boy were standing. Those ripples slowly pushed the boat back to shore.

That's how God's discipline is. When we wander away from Him in the "Sea of Sin" or the "Pond of Unrighteousness," He throws the disturbing actions of His loving discipline in order to create a disturbance to push us back onshore. God wants to push us back to where we should never have wandered form in the first place.

For His Kingdom,

Tony Evans
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