kayaking

today, i have really learnt that if you don't use your skills you lose them.... at least a bit.
You see, i am doing a kayaking course at the moment, and it has been a while since i have been kayaking... and when i got on the water today, i remembered how to paddle and stuff, however my technique wasn't quite right, and i needed a reminder on how to execute the different strokes correctly. I could just go and paddle and have fun, however the strokes that i would use wouldn't be as effictive as if i executed them properly.
I was thinking about that tonight, and started to think how true that is in our spiritual lives... we practice listening to God so that we can reckonise God, and not the enemy. We read the bible and really press in to recieve what God wants to reveal to us. We go out and share the gospel, a word from God to our friends or people we meet. But if we stop these things for a little while we become "rusty", and go back a step, and relearn or be reminded to do these things and how to recieve from God.

I pray that makes sense to you....

Any way i got to go, i have some homework from this course to do.