There’s a phrase I’ve been using around the studio lately. “Body check it.” I’m not a huge hockey fan but I’ve seen a few Washington Capitals games as a kid during a brief time when my dad had season tickets. When you are in the arena and one player “checks” someone into the wall you can hear it from the opposite end of the arena! A body check takes intentionality and a certain amount of recklessness.
In the creative realm, there are certain projects or tasks that are intimidating for one reason or another and the best thing to do is to stop planning, thinking, and contemplating…and just attack the project. Body check it!
Many things in life (and in children’s ministry) just need to be body checked! Some things you can’t “think” clear. You need to face it head on not knowing what is going to happen. If God is calling us to do something (big or small) we need to abandon control and just body check it!
Let’s face our fears, challenges, setbacks, and struggles head on knowing that the God who created everything is in control!
Now here’s the practical part. 1. Sit down and prayerfully list 5-10 SMALL things you’ve sensed God telling you to do now. 2. Do those things this week.
Only God knows what tasks are on the other side of those immediate things, but God will not show us the next step until we body check the one that’s right in front of us!
Psalm 119:105 says “Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path.” Lamps only illuminate the next step. If we saw the next 20 steps, we would not trust God for each one.
In Acts 21, it was shown to Paul that he would be bound when he went to Jerusalem and everyone was trying to talk him out of going. He said, (vs. 13) “Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”
Paul didn’t know the details of what was coming, only what his next step needed to be. Whether you are facing something huge like Paul in Acts 21, or Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane, or something small like “go to the gym three times per week”…body check that next step today!
