Over the past week our house has been struck with the flu, is it “the swine?” I don’t know, but probably, who cares the reality is it sucks just like any other flu that hits kids. I don’t know who this has stressed out more Amber, the kids or me. You see Amber has been stuck inside the house with a sick kid for eight days now and they have been stuck inside. This is a bad combination!! To add to all ready bad combination is the fact that I spend most of my time working out of an office at the house. Why is this bad?? Imagine flu germs swarming, nerves, anxiety, frustration, anti-bacterial gel, vitamin C, Zinc all colliding in one house. Maybe you understand, is this you??
One thing that amazes me about this flu is how it continues to hold on, it seems to have a grip that just doesn’t let go. Once it infects you, you have to wage war against it, use everything you have to try to take it out, you must react quickly! See, the problem is that it sneaks up on you, you don’t know its coming and all you can do is react with everything you can. To tell you the truth I have washed my hands and taken more Vitamin C in the last week than the last six months combined!! I am doing everything I can to take it on before it hits me, don’t know if I stand a chance, but I am fighting with everything I can! I am not going down easy if I go down!!
When you think about it, this flu is very similar to the way sin messes us up. Most of the time we are just going through life without giving much thought to what is going on around us and next thing we know we have strayed so far from where God wants us to be. Very rarely do we see it coming. Scripture says Satan is like a prowling lion, sneaking up on us, ready to leap at any time. You see if we see the lion coming we run or hide or shoot!! It’s when we aren’t ready that we fall and typically fall hard. What if we lived our life in a proactive manner, we did everything we could to live a life that looked like Jesus everyday? What if we thought about our decisions before we had to make them? You wonder how different each day would live if instead of reacting to life we lived life and lived it to the fullest???
