No this is not about smoking cigars. This is about almost finishing your race to stay in God, in your salvation, in your calling, this is about you also being around the right people who will help you to do so. You know in the "be all that you can be" circles they use the analogy of crabs in a bucket whereby when one decides to break free from the herd, the others try and go up ahead of it by climbing on its back and pulling on its fragile appendages, but are unsuccessful as the poor little crab is ascending the slippery side of the bucket whispering, "I think I can, I think I can" it is pulled back on top of the very herd it was trying to escape from.
Sadly it appears that the church has the same bucket. perhaps some have brought their old be all you can be buckets with them, while others may have simply brought a bucket intentionally. And it would be no surprise as we invite the unsaved, unbelieving, and devil himself to church. You see it is impossible not to do so if you are not being equipped for the work of ministry. Now this is the bucket we exchange for the crabby one. And instead of trying to escape the world of crab-herds, we turn our bucket upside down and help the souls out of the old bucket life. If this mission and purpose is not on your right-now bucket list...ok too many buckets...but you know what I mean. Enjoy!
