Follow the Bubbles

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Encouragement for your daily walk with God

There are some things that are true whether we believe them or not, regardless of our perception. A friend of mine, a scuba diver, brought this truth home to me. He told me that it is easy to get disoriented, to lose all sense of direction while under water because it’s dark, and there is no sense of gravity “down there.” 

Once disoriented, a diver may convince himself that he is swimming up when he is actually swimming in the wrong direction, until he runs out of air and drowns. So the solution, he said, is to “always follow the bubbles. BUBBLES NEVER LIE!”

I sometimes think that our world is like a disoriented scuba diver. Disregarding the direction of the bubbles, they “swim” to their own perceptions of right and wrong—and all the while their oxygen tanks are nearing empty. 

Take the results of a Barna survey:

• 74% of Americans said it was OK to steal from rich people because they wouldn’t really miss it;
• 64% believe to OK to lie, as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone;
• 93% say that they mostly decide moral issues based on their own opinion (follow their heart).

I’m of the opinion that God gave us His Word in order for us to have direction in life. Why? Because left to our own devices, we get disoriented. The Word of God acts like “bubbles” of a sort; it shows us the way up—the right way.

The world desperately needs direction because, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death” (Proverbs 14:12). We can avoid these consequences if we “follow the bubbles and swim in the right direction.”