What a week

 

 

Somewhere in time, this week, actually it started last week, I have been saying, what a week.  I was reading a magazine once and it said that God never gives us more than we can handle, and then it went on to say, I wish God didn’t have such a good opinion of me.  It was meant to be humorous and I found it so.  

There is a movie that came out a few years ago, called Evan Almighty.  In the story, a man is chosen by God to build an Ark.  Setting out to accomplish what God wants him to has caused him to be suspended from his job.  He is ridiculed by his neighbors.  At the scene where is wife is taking their three sons and leaving because she says her husband needs help, we see him look up to the sky and say: “I know everything you do, you do because you love me”.  After he utters these words, the sprinkler system comes on and he his drenched in water.  He again looks up and says, “Love me less”.

I started to wonder if God really makes sure we don’t get more than we can handle. I’m sure he does and I’m equally sure He knows we can handle more than we think we can. But God never promised us things would be easy. He never promised we would always feel blessed. He promised that He would never leave us of forsake us.

Early this month, I heard that watching Gold Fish swim was a stress reducer.  I had a small one gallon tank containing a pump that would aerate the water.  I cleaned it up, set it up and went to buy four small little fish and some food.  At first things went well and then the smallest fish started to look funny and quickly died.  I worried that I fed them too much or not enough, but I wasn’t sure what went wrong. 

The next day, after church we stopped to pick up some food to take home.  The battery on our car died and we had to get help to leave the restaurant.    

That same day, at home, we had a perimeter wall next to our house that was leaning.  My husband went out to try and fix it.  He tried digging out the other side and pushing it back up to straighten it.  The entire wall crumbled down instead.

This was a week of calling contractors, trying to get someone else to fix the wall.  It was also an expensive week, a new car battery and a contractor bill. 

My stress reducing fish, all died, one at a time, every few days.  If you’re worried, I won’t be buying any more fish, too much stress.

If we feel loved and cherished by God, it has more to do with us, than with Him.  He never moves, but we do.  Sometimes we pull away because we think we can handle things on our own.  Sometimes we draw close because we know we will never make it without Him.  Either way, we are the ones moving. 

Bad things happen, it’s a part of life.  People get sick, pets die, things break.  None of that has any bearing on God’s love for us.

John 3:16-17 “For God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.”

 

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