Monday Morning Session

Coach Walton opened our final session this morning with Galatians 6:9 where Paul was encouraging the Galatians to "not become weary in doing good." It takes PATIENCE!

He told us a story about a toll booth operator on a railroad who took his son to work with him one day. His son had been so excited and looking forward to this day and was so happy to get to spend the day with his dad! 

It was a beautiful day so the two went outside to eat their lunch. As they were finishing up the dad remembered something he needed to do and went back up to the control booth for a minute. While in there he heard on the radio that a party train was heading in his direction and the bridge would need to be lowered. As he reached for the crank he remembered his son was still outside. He looked out the window of the booth but didn't see him where they had been sitting. He quickly scanned the area and spotted his son...Right under where the bridge would need to be lowered in order for the train to pass. He could see the train in the distance and could hear the whistle as it grew closer. In a panic he yelled for his son and banged furiously on the window knowing there was no way his son could actually hear him. The train was rapidly moving closer and there were only seconds to spare. What to do? How to choose?? If he left the bridge up, his precious son would be safe but no one on the party train would survive the crash. But lowering the bridge meant crushing his very own son. The dad cried out, completely broken, as he turned the crank lowering the bridge. With a heartbroken wail, he watched his innocent child die, but as the train passed everyone inside continued on with their partying having NO idea the danger they had been in or the sacrificial choice the dad had just made in order to save THEM.

In order to start an uprising in our own life that we can share with everyone around us we first have to realize that this is exactly the sacrifice God made for US! It's as if Jesus' last thoughts while he hung on the cross were, "I'm doing this for YOU! So YOU can live every day working your little bit with COURAGE and BOLDNESS and doing things you never thought you could do!"