Revolutionary Leaders

Trust Your Bubbles

I recently heard a conversation with a man who's a scuba diver. He shared an interesting story. He said that when you're down deep you're encircled by light. You are unable to tell which way is up because the water diffuses the light. You're also totally weightless, so you have no sense of gravity.

Surrounded by an aura of light and weightlessness, it's very easy to lose all sense of direction and get disoriented. You may sense that this way is up and that your air bubbles are going sideways! You may be so convinced that your perception is true that you decide to ignore your bubbles and go the way you think is up. I wouldn't be surprised if some divers have drowned because of this. One of the first things my friend was told when he was learning to scuba dive was to always trust your bubbles. No matter how you feel, no matter what you think, your bubbles are always right.

Our society is disoriented. Millions of people are confused. They don't know which way is up. They're like disoriented scuba divers, following their subjective whims and following the subjective whims of other disoriented people who say, "Live like this. Believe this. Think this way, not that way." For years, people have been ignoring the objective, trustworthy Word of God--the Bible. The Bible describes things as they really are. It agrees with reality. Like the scuba-diver's bubbles, the Bible is always right, no matter how you feel, no matter what you think.
(Taken from Momentum, a youth leaders resource from the Assemblies of God)