Have you ever wondered why we do some of the crazy things we, as human beings, do?Well, it depends on what crazy things we’re talking about. Wars are crazy in a sense; they’re for freedom, land, power, religion, any number of things. Murder is crazy, people murder for revenge, hate, money (I’m sure there are more, just can’t think of them).Drugs are crazy; people risk their lives for/with drugs.But those aren’t the crazy things I’m talking about (bet you guys thought I was going somewhere spiritual with this).
I’m talking about stupid crazy stuff, stuff like jumping off of the top of 8ft. walls, just for fun. Going off ramps in a tiny ride-in jeep, even though it hurts bad enough just squeezing into it.
Going off a huge swing (if you’ve been to my house you know what I’m talking about) standing up, because sitting down isn’t fun enough. Why do I do those stupid things? I really don’t know. They’re fun, exciting, and sometimes scary.
Why risk breaking an arm for temporary pleasure, momentary satisfaction? (Here comes the spiritual part) It’s the same reason we sin, it seems like an okay thing to do, and then we look back and realize how dumb it was. But still we don’t really stop doing it, we can put a pillow on the seat of the jeep so it’s softer but it still hurts a little bit, so we use a helmet, helmets make everything better, right? Not really, helmets don’t stop us from doing crazy things, it just makes us feel safer.No matter how hard we try to be careful, every once in a while we’re still going to get hurt. The only way we can step out of our stupid crazy sin, is to step into Jesus, because Jesus is the helmet that really does make everything better.
