Have you ever had one of those days that started off really bad?
Today that is exactly what happened.
At 4:30 am I arose to get ready for work , 5:00 I attempted to leave for work . Key word “attempted” but once out of the drive thru I couldn’t move the van. You see while in the drive way the brake light came on-which always happen in our now disintegrating vehicle when one pushes on the pedal. But it being so early (my excuse of choice) I thought -oh the emergency brake is on. So I proceeded to lift it up. Now this is when the van wouldn’t move.
I then ran in to my mom who was still very sleepy asking for her help. She came out and explained to me that the brake goes down when driving not up.
Finally I arrived to my place of employment to find abosolutely no one there. I was supposed to be there at 5:30am for inventory. I was early and thought ok call mom…. After figuring some things out I waited till about six when a manager will arrive to open the store.
She came and I asked “Isn’t today the inventory day?”
She looked at me and said with regret “No that was Monday”
My heart sunk. We then proceeded to go inside and check the schedule. I had written down the wrong day and felt terrible. She was so gracious to reassure me that we all make mistakes and that it was ok.
I called my mom again (thank you Jesus for Mom’s!) we talked and then she said she would see me soon.
I made it to the second stop light before I started crying. This is not a good idea when your core of vision is being completely clouded.
I kept arguing with myself that I better stop crying b/c I needed to stay alive, but then thinking all I wanted to do was cry .
After a while I stopped crying and sat at a stop light wishing I could turn back time when I say the car in front of me . It had a bumper sticker that read “Look to Jesus”.
You see I was worried about my own reputation and the consequences of my actions instead of letting Jesus have it all. In spite of myself, Jesus would take care of me.
I’ll end with this 🙂 I have been memorizing Phil 4.
V4-7 says
“Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again rejoice. Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be afraid about anything but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving ,present your requests to God. And the peace of God which transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.”
So when all seems like a mess turned upside down. Keep all focus on Jesus and Rejoice!
Instead of importing other people’s spiritual success stories, I would find it more natural for us all to search for the ways that God has ordained for each one of us to put into practice in our own time and place what we feel He has revealed to us. Hummm….
Some of this is a crutch: hiding fear. We may leap but it wont be out of faith. The core followers of Christ have found that following Him is not about having sufficient academic and statistical proof before they act…rather, it is about having the faithful and obedient desire to follow God’s Word and do what He said, no matter what, when, where, or who has gone before.
13:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 13:2 And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 13:3 If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no benefit.
13:4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up. 13:5 It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful. 13:6 It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth. 13:7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
13:8 Love never ends. But if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be set aside. 13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, 13:10 but when what is perfect comes, the partial will be set aside. 13:11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways. 13:12 For now we see in a mirror indirectly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known. 13:13 And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.
A Few Of My Favorite Things(The Mosquito Remix) Rain on umbrellas,and playing the keyboard;Afternoon tea-break and praising the Lord;Family answ’ring the phone when it rings,These are a few of my favorite things. When mosquitoes bite, when the ant stings,When I’m feeling sadI simply remember my favorite things,And then I don’t feel so bad. Taking my shoes off outside of the doorSitting cross-legged on mats on the floorSeeing a friend from the “Land of Kings”These are a few of my favorite things. Wearing punjabis and eating lime pickleSpending two rupees instead of a nickelAsian believers beginning to singThese are a few of my favorite things. Corie Anna 2010
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