BBD 09.23.14 All Bogged Down (Classic)
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The Burning
Bush Devotional
Classic
from 2002
09.23.14
All
Bogged Down
A certain man had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father,
‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them
his livelihood. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together,
journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal
living. But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land,
and he began to be in want. The he went and joined himself to a citizen of that
country, and be sent into his fields to feed swine. And he would gladly have
filled his stomach with the pods that swine ate, and no one gave him anything.
- Luke 15:11-16 NKJV.
You’ll be excited to know that there is a new world
champion in the sport of Bog Snorkeling. Philip John from south Wales completed
a 60-yard course snorkeling through a four-foot deep trench of mud dug out in a
peat bog. There were 90 brave individuals who competed in the contest, and they
were allowed snorkels and flippers. One of the competitors who is from Ireland,
Julia Galvin, said, “Its an
unforgiving sport. You get bitten by insects, very dirty, smelly and you are
wet all day.”
While working in the oilfield, I once was unable to get
to the drilling rig location because of a muddy road. But they had a huge
bulldozer pull my truck two miles through the mud and into the location where
we walked around in mud knee high. I noticed something about the mud - it slows
everything down. Just like the competitors snorkeling in the bog, would be
unable to swim as fast as someone in clear water, it's not easy to pick up your
boot and take a step with mud clinging to it. The prodigal son experienced the
bogging down effect of sin. The farther you are from the Father the more
difficult it becomes.
Whenever you sin, it complicates your life and slows down
your progress spiritually and delays the fulfillment of God’s will in your
life. Spiritually living outside of God’s will is like being in a bog of mud or
walking around in knee-deep mud. Thankfully there is a solution for us when we
become all bogged down. The solution is the same one that the prodigal son
found. The only solution is to return to the Father. Turn back to
God! When the prodigal son came to himself, he remembered that even the
servants in his Father’s house had it better than he had it.
Are you all bogged down? Don’t be like the Israelites, who because of their
disobedience took 40 years to reach the Promised Land when it should have only
taken 9 ½ days. Turn to God because only He has the power to lift you up and
clean you off. Only God has the power to forgive you and give you a new
beginning.
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