In the record-breaking blockbuster Frozen, the supporting character, who most viewers consider the
main character, is a happy go lucky snowman named Olaf. I have to admit, he
made me laugh several times, and his demeanor is hard to dislike. He sings the
second most popular song in the movie called, “In Summer”. For those three
people who have not watched this movie, here are some of the lyrics: “Bees will
buzz, kids will blow dandelion fuzz, and I’ll be doing whatever snow does in
summer…my snow up against the burning sand probably getting gorgeously tanned
in summer.”
Of course the
humorous thing about this melody is everyone knows what will happen to this
poor snowman in summer…
he melts.
The snowman has limits, and unless or until he learns to
embrace those limits, he will surely do whatever it is that happens to snow in
summer.
Here is the unshakable reality of life:
Truth will always dominate one’s hopes, beliefs, and aspirations.
In fact, everything created has limits. Nothing is exempt
from the actuality of our physical laws that hold us together as well as the often-ignored
spiritual laws that, if followed, keep us mentally together. We are both
physical and spiritual. We have a physical being that is useless without the
spirit that makes it alive. That is, all the DNA, RNA, and billions of cells
can do nothing without life being breathed into it and we call this our
soul…our spirit.
Health conscious people are cautious about what they eat,
drink, and think. The interesting thing is that most of them miss the reason
they are limiting themselves…
They live with
self-imposed restrictions not just to look good, but so they can
“feel” good.
Feelings come from our spirit, not from nerves, electric
impulses, or genetics. It is our spirit’s interpretation and assimilation of
that constantly fluctuating data that makes someone ‘feel’ good. Our gray
matter is our brain, but our mind/spirit cannot be located…it is this
mind/spirit that allows us to feel anything.
If you live your life
ignoring your physical limitations, you will feel it spiritually.
You will melt
Olaf’s friends hesitated to be honest with him and tell him
exactly what happens to snow in summer. If they truly cared and loved Olaf,
they would humbly inform him and suggest he daydream about summer, but seek the
artic north. For Olaf, he can only prosper and remain happy-go-lucky in the
cold.
For humankind, we can only prosper and remain happy-go-lucky
by accepting and living the way our Creator has informed us via sixty-six books
that we call the Bible.
God, because He IS love:Warns His beloved that we will, in a sense, ‘melt in the summer sun’.
He humbly requests, does not demand, that we follow His
leading because He knows how we function properly, and He desires for us to
spiritually prosper.
Contrary to popular
opinion, the Bible is not a book of rules…it is sixty-six books filled with
unquestionable wisdom that transcends time, the whims of man, and the silliness
of momentary cultures.
Read it.
Study it.
Apply it.
It is from these truths that you will thrive. God is on your side if you would trust and
allow Him to lead, you will realize this amazing certainty.
Don’t be an Olaf living in a false fantasy. Live in reality
and embrace your boundaries as our loving God has articulated.
Limits are not a bad
thing; they keep us alive and keep us
Frozen.
Frozen.
“’For I know the plans I have for you,’" says the LORD. ‘They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.’” Jer. 29:11
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