Godly Wisdom > Worldly "Wisdom"

I grew up on the lake. As far back as I can remember my family has had a boat. I started out tubing behind the boat and eventually got into other water sports. My mom tried to teach me to ski when I was like seven years old. She told me to just lean back and not to try and stand up. So that’s what I did. I leaned back, against the pull of the boat. I never got up, I just got water boarded behind the boat for a minute and let go. The boat came back around and I started yelling at my mom telling her I told her I couldn’t do it and she made me. I threw one of my baby skis at her. Eventually I learned to ski and to wakeboard. What I figured out is that you’re not supposed to fight against the boat, but you’re not supposed to get yourself up either. The way it works on the wakeboard is you’re sitting there in the water, in a position kind of like you’re taking a poo. Then the boat starts to pull you. You don’t try to stand up, if you do then you’ll just go down. You don’t fight against the pull of the boat either, or you’ll get water boarded, you don’t want to swallow that much lake water. You just let it pull you up.

When you try to do it all yourself, it doesn’t work out. Too many people try to live life this way, doing it all on their own. The section we’re looking at tonight tells us that life is like wakeboarding, if you try to do it all on your own then it won’t work out well. Maybe you’ll even get waterboarded. God did not make us totally self-reliant.