I took my girls kite flying today. It was a lot of fun. The wind was just strong enough to send the kite into the sky and let the girls hang on without pulling them off their feet.
For my youngest daughter, it was her first time to fly a kite. I'm pretty sure she loved it. Although after about fifteen minutes she was ready to pick flowers. My oldest daughter hung on for dear life the entire time, only losing the kite once (but to her credit, twenty mile an hour winds are not the easiest for kite wrangling).
As I watched the kite fly through the air and I held on while the wind pushed against it, I got to thinking; What if we compared the kite to us, the kite holder to God and the wind to adversity.
A kite is designed to fly whenever it is pushed by the wind, and it has resistance from someone keeping it from going any higher. As a person lets out more string, the kite will keep a relatively even altitude until the string is no longer let out, which then allows the wind to let it rise more. If a person were to cut the string, the kite would only fly as long as the wind pushed the kite above the ground and gravity drew the kite back to earth.
As a Christian, sometimes we think we are at our best when nothing negative is happening. When we are doing the "right" things, we feel good because everything seems to be going right in our lives. I have been at a place where I thought I didn't need God because I felt like I had it all together. So I cut the string, so to speak, from God's control thinking that I could handle things on my own. So when adversity came, I had nothing to hold on to and I fell to the ground.
I have learned from many times of falling on my own that if I will just hang on to my relationship to God, that when adversity comes, and it always does at some time, He will keep me flying. Maybe not as high as I would like, but with just enough string to soar.
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