A Cricket Story

Somewhere in time, this week, I have been working from home.  It has worked out well.  I save money on gas and I save an hour of commute time every day.  I miss going to grab tea with my friends, but other than that it has been a great change.  On Thursday of this week, I was working away and I noticed a cricket crawling up my drapes. I’m not sure what he was hoping to find, but I do have a spider that lives at the very top of my window.  That spider knows the exact spot I can’t reach when I dust.  I will have to climb on my desk someday and get that pesky spider, but maybe I don’t have to, maybe the cricket will.

Having had that thought, I changed my mind.  I wanted the cricket out of the room. I took a folder and I knocked it on the ground so I could catch it and throw it outside.  It didn’t work.  I couldn’t find him.  I went back to work and I was talking to a client on the phone when I saw the cricket again, climbing up my drapes.  This time I saw his shadow as he was on the inside of the drapes.

I just started to think that this cricket is like me sometimes. I go full steam ahead even when other people are warning me not to.  Luckily I am a Christian, so I usually go full steam ahead in a road I believe God will approve of.  Sometimes I think God just shakes his head and smiles.  I may not be right all the time, but I am always energetic.  Just like this cricket.

There are other times when we as humans go full steam ahead without checking with anyone, even God, and the path we are on leads to destruction.  There is a Proverb that talks about people being wise in their own eyes.

Proverbs 3:7 (NIV) “Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil.

Unfortunately I believe we live in a world full of people who are wise in their own eyes.  They have no regard for God and no fear of evil. This worries me.  If we live without regard for God, we are destined for trouble. 

Well if you want to know about my cricket, he chose to disregard my attempts to dissuade him from climbing up my drapes and he made it all the way to the top.  I didn’t see what happened, but he fell all the way down and hit a little metal lid from a canister I have sitting on my desk.  I don’t know if the spider got him or he just missed a step. I just want you to remember, that when you are going through life, full steam ahead, remember to see what the Lord has in store for you.  He will never lead you up a drape, just to watch you fall.

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