Drowning

No one ever wants to experience the feeling of drowning. Pretend that you are an experienced swimmer and you know the basics of how to swim and how to be safe. One day though something goes wrong and you get tangled up by a rope and no matter what you do you can't get untangled (this being the want in your life or the sin). Once you realize you can't get undone panic sets in (the wonderings of is the right, should I be doing this, or is there a way to fix this?). Suddenly the gasping for air comes into affect, but when you gasp for air all you get is water (the want or sin of your life is beginning to overwhelm who you are and take over you). Now there are many endings to this scenario.

One. A swimmer comes by at just the right time and helps untangle you and saves you from almost drowning. When you reach the surface you gasp for air and then breathe in again realizing that you are free and can breathe once again. What was tangling you up was left at the bottom of the ocean floor and when you gasped for that first breath of air you were free of that want or sin. Now the person who saved you can be a mixture of many people: family, friends, boyfriend/girlfriend, or God. Maybe the family and friends helped you put together the problems you were having and led you back from the mess. Or your significant other saw that you were sinking and gave up everything they needed to in order to save you. Then there is God who saw the whole process take place and he watched you suffer and He came and saved you because He knew you needed Him and didn't want this pain anymore.

Two. There is some miracle and the rope becomes loose and you are able to swim to the top. You reach the top yet again gasping for air, but this is not the same as if someone saves you. This breath is a thank goodness i am alive, but you are going to fall back into the same trap as before. You don't realize how you were saved but you get past that. You go back to your old habits of that want or sin and keep thinking it will get better or solve itself once again.

Three. No one comes, the rope doesn't loosen itself. The only fate left is simply drowning to the death of this sin or want. You have become so developed in this part of life that it overwhelms your every thought. This want or sin becomes everything to you and you will do anything to protect it or say it is going to change. But in this scenario we can all see that the want or sin wins by overtaking the mind and body and the person tangled up by the rope loses. What they thought was going to change or was alright consumed their every being and they lost the battle they were trying to fight.

Drowning is not something we want to experience, but it is not only the drowning in water that a person can experience. In one point or another we all have this drowning affect overtake our lives. Whether it be during the school year with work, doing office work, figuring out relationships with family and friends, or falling in love with everything when it the other is not, we all drown. We consume ourselves with this thought or action and it become the reason for our every day movement. It may not be easy to let go of this sin or want, but for the better being of your own self you might have to let go to protect yourself. Drowning is not something we want to go through, but the experience is one that we can grow from.