"Quack" Goes the Duck

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. Matthew 7:7

I heard an allegory recently that many of us are like a bunch of ducks sitting in a small, dirty, barely sustaining puddle of water. And God has a huge pond for us just over the hill, full of food and sun and shade and space, but we can't see it. And so we cling tightly to the mediocre life that we've got because we're too scared to leave behind the safety of "certainty", and too scared to trust God for fear of being disappointed and ending up with nothing. So we spend day after day sitting in our pathetic puddles, somewhat safe, but never truly flying.

I'm getting out of my puddle and seeking the pond.

It's frighteningly exciting.