Of course you size up the situation and consider the vehicle that you are in, and then you decide. As you approach the puddle, at some point you have to commit. You have to decide if you are going through the puddle or turning around. One thing is for sure, inching your way through the puddle is a sure recipe for getting stuck.
It's a little like when NASA is preparing to launch. At Mission Control they list off the critical systems and at each point they are asked, "Go-No Go?" Are you in? The people in charge of each critical system must declare that they are good to go. They must commit. If any of the systems declares a "no go", The launch is called off,
Some things are like that. You are in or you are out. You can't inch through a puddle. You can't kind of launch a rocket. The airplane is either taking off or staying on the ground. As Yoda said, "Do or do not, there is no try."
This Go-No Go philosophy is one that we as Christians should embrace. As a Christian we can't dip our toe into the Holy Spirit and see how it feels. We need to decide if we are in or are we not. And if we are in, we need to be all in. We need to commit. Like inching our way through a mud puddle, dabbling in the Christian faith is a good way to get trapped.
We can get trapped in the ways of the world. We can get bogged down by sin and never feel the freedom that awaits us. We have to decide if we are going to live our lives for our self, or are we going to surrender to the will of God. As long as we are living for our self, we will be slaves to the bonds of sin. To find true freedom we need to commit.
When we live for ourselves we are slaves to sin. We can only have one top priority in our life. If we are most concerned with accumulating the things of this world, then our top priority can't be our relationship with God. So which will it be? Are we a Go or a No Go?
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