Free to Fly

They were everywhere! Tiny, numerous, irritating, fruit flies!

On the walls, on the windows, hanging out together, dancing

round the fruit bowl, buzzing and twirling, swarming and

crawling. My kitchen was teeming!

They had been lounging, uninvited in my kitchen, far too long. Enough was enough!

I put fruit into two jars, covered them with cling film, made holes in the top, and left them to do their work. Sure enough, Bob’s your uncle the jars were soon filled with the flies, swarming over the fruit, oblivious to their fate, unable to find the exit to make an escape.

And yet, even the tiniest of creatures drew on my pity, so I took the jars to the furthest point in the garden, released the lid and left the jars open to the expanse of sky, so that my personal pests could escape from their prison.

Yet to my surprise, instead of a mass exodus from their fruity prison, the flies remained, buzzing silently around the fruit, oblivious to their fate, blinded by the sweetness of the fruit, and unwilling to escape their captivity.

If the son sets you free you will be free indeed. John 8:36

Christ came to set you free. Some however, conform so tightly to their old way of life that they are unable to embrace the liberating freedom of new life offered by Christ, remaining locked in a pattern of temptation, addiction, hedonism or spiritual drift that leads to their demise.    

Today, let go of old patterns, choose to be free.

With Love,        Rev Gill x                                                                                               

Do not conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Rom 12:2