big yellow balloon

Picture this:

You are a child and you are about to go on a trip to Disney World. You are so excited you can hardly stand yourself! Through the airport you hold your daddy’s hand so that you do not get lost. However, you see a big yellow balloon!

You let go of your daddy’s hand and take off desiring to play with it. You hear your daddy yell for you in the distance to come back! But you ignore his voice and keep on running after that enticing big yellow balloon. You finally catch up to the big yellow balloon, - oh! and it’s so nice to play with! You tie the string around your wrist and just skip around with glee. You hear your daddy again say, “Come back! It’s not time to play.” But you just smile, pretend not to hear him and keep playing.

Your daddy sees in the distance a strange man starting to approach you. You see the man and thinks he looks nice, he has lots of pretty colorful balloons! The man leans over to you and whispers in your ear, “You can have any balloon you want if you take my hand.” So of course, you take his hand.

As he is about to yank you up into his arms, your daddy comes and rescues you. He fights to have you back as you are being torn between the two. Your daddy cuts the big yellow balloon off your wrist and embraces you in his arms as he takes you away from the man. You are so scared and do not know what to do.

You are just glad to be resting safe in the arms of your daddy again.



"And He did it, rescued us from certain doom. And He'll do it again, rescuing us as many times as we need rescuing." 2 Cor. 1:10

{embrace the journey}