How many times have you come home after a wicked long day, step in the shower and just turn on the hot water and not want to stand, but instead you sit there. If you are normal unlike me, your answer is probably zero. But that's what I did on sunday, but not after a long day, in the morning. It's a nice feeling sitting down in that Umass Amherst bathtub, admiring the cleanliness of the bottom. The warm water is beating down on your sore body, and you just kinda sit there and think.
The showerhead, well it's alot like God, well atleast if you're sitting down. (You should try it every once in a while, it makes cleaning your feet alot easier.) The shower head, at that moment, is where everything comes from, it pours water down on you, sometimes it comforts you and makes you feel amazing, it makes you happy. And other times the shower, well it only spits out sub zero temperature water, making you flinch and try to run away when you have nowhere to go other than that small 5 foot by 3 foot ivory container called a tub. (Yes, I realize that you can't have sub-zero water, but guess what it's moving, so there's Kinetic energy, so you can!! Ha!!, you think your so smart but you're not, anyways...) You're trapped, forced to go through the 10 minutes or so of biting cold shower, because you'd rather be clean than dirty. And the shower is also where you become clean, it's the place where you can bring whatever is on your body dirt, grass, blood, spaghetti stains, anything, and the waters will wash it away.
Good Days and Bad Days
"Some days you're the bird, some days you're the statue". Only strange people don't have good stretches and bad stretches within their lives. At times you can feel like God is on your side, when everything is alright, when everything runs smoothly, and it feels like, a warm relaxing shower. And at other times it's just a cold dark world out there where nothing is going your way, and it seems like your entire life is ruined. You want to (remember our analogy is sitting in a shower) change the dial and make everything better but you can't and you have to wait it out. You have to ride through the storm. God gives us both times, good and bad, why is something that some can theorize and explain, but there is no one conclusive answer. Thing is though we have to just take it and go along for the ride.
You will always be naked
Before God, you are naked, He sees everything that you are, no matter how much you try to hide it, no matter how well you can conceal behind your poker face, he can see right through it. Wouldn't it be great if we were always naked? Not in the typical way we think of naked, but in the way that we wouldn't have to keep secrets from each other, we would never have to try to hide our insides. When you enter a shower, you will never get clean if you go in with your clothes on. So how can we expect God to help us be pure, if we try to hide ourselves from him? God's power may be unlimited, but (correct me if i'm wrong) I don't think God can truly help you if you cannot come naked before Him.
Bad Analogy Apology
This analogy made sense when i came out of the shower, and it still feels right to me now. But if you disagree you know post something, I don't really know how, i never posted any comments in my life, just, well, I hope you enjoyed this random rant, but it really means something to me, so don't make fun of me or anything. You can respectfully disagree but I mean don't be like "You're stupid" because that's just really immature, I'm sure you can find some other way to express that. This last paragraph doesn't make any sense whatsoever, and there's random bold letters, something happened to the text thing and I couldn't figure out how to fix it, but until next time.
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