A weathervane tells the way the wind blows.
That’s not the half of it, though. The deeper story is how the weathervane tells the way the wind blows.
First, the weathervane has to be able to spin easily. If it’s stuck pointing only one way, it won’t point the right way, unless the wind just happens to be blowing the same direction.
What good is that? It’s like having a fair-weather friend, one who is with us in good times, but who falls away in bad.
Yeeech!
Second, it works by being unevenly balanced. The wind catches on the larger part (typically the feathers of the arrow) and the arrow tells the true wind direction.
When the bulk of our focus is on God, he can give us a gentle push, and our face will always turn to look at him.
That’s worth a cheer!
Third, we have to sit at the highest point around. That’s the only way to catch the wind.
If we have buildings, trees, or anything blocking the wind, we will spin uselessly, giving no valid information at all.
We will be worthless.
Acts 14:23 tells us:
“And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.”
These men were the weathervanes of the early church. They had to be able to spin easily, for their times forced them into contention with their Roman overlords. They had to be unevenly balanced, for if God was not their focus, they would shift directions at every gust that came their way. They were held to a higher standard than other church members, for if they did not move with the winds of God’s divine direction, how would the body of Christ ever find the straight and narrow path to him?
When we are new Christians, we are as weathervanes freshly minted. We are shiny and polished, right out of the box.
True weathervane living is much more. We have to be mounted high. Birds will foul us. Winds will etch us. Rains will corrode us. Lightning will punish the very stuff we are made of.
Yet, if we remain in the box, shiny and new, how will we ever lead others to Christ? We must be out there, taking all that the elements can throw our way, because that is what weathervane living is all about.
We must be weathervanes for Christ.
When we are wholly walking with God, we will spin at the slightest brush of his hand. When the world looks at us, we will always be pointing to him.
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