NEVER ASSUME GOD’S WILL
One of the more challenging endeavors of believers is
to find the will of God for specific situations. Thus, our efforts to seek divine direction
must be a purposeful, prayerful and scripture-based. Walter Knight told of an old Scottish woman
who traveled from home-to-home selling thread, buttons and shoestrings. When she came to an unmarked country crossroad,
she would simply toss a stick into the air and go in the direction that the
stick pointed when it landed.
However, one day she was observed tossing that stick
up in the air several times. “Why do you
toss your stick more than once?” a good friend asked. “Because,” replied the woman, “it keeps
pointing to the left, and I want to take the road on the right.” She then dutifully kept throwing the stick
into the air until it pointed in the direction she wanted to go!
Never confuse God’s will with yours. He often works in mysterious and unexpected
ways.
Early in the 1900s, a bishop pronounced from his pulpit and
in the periodical he edited that heavier-than-air flight was both impossible
and contrary to the will of God. Life
brings so many unanticipated events. Bishop Wright
was wrong, though entirely confident he had discerned the plans of God. The incredible irony is that he had two sons,
Orville and Wilbur, who happened to achieve a remarkable flying feat on
December 17, 1903!
Stay open. God and
life just might surprise.
Sisters and brothers, be continually blessed, and
please (above all else) MAKE SURE YOU ARE READY TO MEET OUR SOON COMING KING.
Maranatha!
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