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 Did
your string ball get the mumps? Is your spool tractor all gummed
up? Are the notches worn on your whooeee slick so that the
propeller no longer turns? Take heart'. I'm going to tell you
how to make a "Whizzer:"
You'll
need a large button, one inch diameter or better; and a cord,
about thirty inches long-- strong, but small enough to go
through the button holes. Put both ends through holes in the
button, using diagonal openings if it is a four-holer. Tie the
ends of the cord together. Pull equal amounts of cord to either
side of the button, and loop over three or four fingers on each
hand to operate, swing the button until it is wound up as tight
as the brotherhood. Then, pull your hands apart so that tension
on the string will unwind the button rapidly. With a little
practice one can "give in" just a bit, as the cord
straightens, and its speed will wind it in the opposite
direction. Pull again — and again — and you will make the
button turn, and turn; whiz and whiz; and you will have a "Whizzer."
Reaction
is not, in itself, a bad thing. In fact, good soldiers are
supposed to react to enemy action — to bolster defense at the
point of attack, and to counterattack. But
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God's army also has positive goals, and
our main thrust should be in their attainment. Unlike the "Whizzer"
whose total motion is one of reaction, we should he busily
driving toward these goals regardless of what others do or say.
The
Whizzer spins only when tension motivates a counter action. In
the absence of such opposition it remains at dead center —
dead. And some times a challenge to comfortable status quo is
the only thing that can cause a church to stir. Then, one
suspects the action is defense of pride rather than a
deep-seated desire to serve the Lord. Reactions that are nothing
more than that, usually result in a pendulum-type swing to some
extreme opposite.
The
solution is not to cease to react to error, but to smother error
in a constant, concerted drive to do God's bidding at all times.
If our conscious goal is Heaven, and we move steadily forward,
in season and out of season, we will be engaged in much more
than a reaction program. We will not wait for crack-pot notions
in some distant corner to determine our direction. We will not
be "Whizzers" that spin, but go nowhere.
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