Juggling The Balls
As we go through life, one by one, we are given pool balls by various folks with one simple instruction: Juggle. Do not ever let the balls fall to the floor. No matter what, you must keep the balls in the air. It is a matter of life and death. If you drop the wrong ones, they will explode in your face.
This, however, would seem a very cruel joke: no matter how hard we try, we can never keep all the balls in the air. There is simply too many, and we know that not all of the balls are important, but no one will tell us which ball doesn't matter and which ball will kill us if we just let it fall to the ground. So we keep scrambling to keep the balls in the air. For each ball we manage to get back up in the air, another five fall to the ground.
So what are we to do? The answer is hillariously simple: STOP JUGGLING THE BALLS!
I know what you're thinking. "But you said keeping the balls in the air is a matter of life and death" It is. I didn't say drop the balls. I said stop juggling them. Why bother? You're never going to be able to keep them all in the air no matter how hard you try, and how are you to know the one you drop wasn't the mega-important one that absolutely must stay in the air?
The answer is very simple. You can't keep the balls in the air. I can't keep the balls in the air. None of us can. So what are we to do? We can't drop the balls, can we?
You see my friends, we can't keep the balls in the air, but SOMEONE can. His Name is Jesus and He is the Son of God and a born jugglar. He can juggle your balls, he can juggle my balls. And he can do it at the same time. Why? Because he knows which balls need to stay in the air and which ones need to fall to the ground. He also knows which balls aren't in the air that need to be, and He can pick them up and put them back in the air again-without letting a single ball that needs to be in the air fall.
So there is only one thing to do: give our balls to Jesus! He loves us very much, He is litterally dying to juggle our balls for us. So give them to Him!
Just one last warning: I know how tempting it is to try to juggle the balls, we see them right before our eyes, suspended in the air with nothing we can see holding them up, and our fleshy nature pushes us to try to juggle a few. But DON'T DO IT! Resist giving that ball a juggle, ask Jesus for the strength to resist the temptation. Touching that ball will only result in it crashing to the ground again, and you will have to start all over because before you know it, you will be trying to juggle them yourself again, and it will have the same result as it is having now. I myself fall prey to this trap repeatedly. It is from the enemy, so DON'T DO IT!