Yesterday’s Catch, “I can’t believe I’m getting away with this,” deserves more scrutiny. It’s a feeling of astonishment that should permeate all we do, if, in fact, we are walking with Jesus. It’s a statement common to living a life of grace, and if it doesn’t strike a chord, then maybe we are living a life short of what it could be.

Think about Gideon charging down the mountain with 300 men, a torch in one hand and a horn in the other, reaching the camp of 120,000 Midianites who, by the time they get there, are already almost all dead from killing each other in widespread panic. Can’t you imagine him looking at his horn and his torch and all these dead Midianites thinking, “I can’t believe I’m getting away with this.” Or how about young David, after felling Goliath with a stone from his slingshot, and grabbing Goliath’s sword that he could barely lift to lop off his head thinking, “I can’t believe I’m getting away with this.” Or Samson killing a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass. Or Daniel, lying down in the den of lions burying his head in the soft mane of the king of beasts who should have been having him for lunch, thinking, “I can’t believe I’m getting away with this.”

Marti counsels people all the time with amazing insight into their problems and just what is needed to break free of their bondage, and I know she often thinks, “I can’t believe I’m getting away with this.”

Don’t you think you are getting away with something when God’s Holy Spirit empowers you beyond your natural abilities? When are you sure you are over your head in His gifting? This is how we know that our faith is not in vain.

I am outside while I am writing this on our brick patio when I look down and see a sprig of ivy lying there. I reach to pick it up, only to discover it is not just lying there as I thought, it is rooted there, growing up between the bricks (see picture). If that little sprig of ivy could talk, you know what it might say: “I can’t believe I’m getting away with this.”