Friday, March 6, 2015

What's the real Question?

It has been a crazy week.  Trying to fly out on a 7:30 am plane that was broken (that plane didn't leave airport until after 5:00 pm), trying to reschedule for the next day's flight since there was no way Delta could get us from home to Honolulu that day, getting told that I REALLY needed to be at the meeting the next day, finding the only flight anywhere by anyone to get me there, leaving at 6:00 pm and flying all night with stops in Dallas-Fort Worth and Las Vegas before arriving at 6:00 am, getting luggage, car, and to hotel by 7:30, getting picked up at 7:50 and at the meeting at 9:00 am, sitting in it until 11:00, eating lunch and at another meeting at 1:00.  Long day.  

The odd thing about the whole day is, everything was seemingly against us.  Every line was long, every red light was red, every delay was delayed, every seat was uncomfortable, etc.  Honestly, I very seldom experience such things, or I seldom notice them.  I usually just laugh when everything planned goes awry.  What else can you do?  

This time, I just truly wondered how I was out of God's will.  Maybe I wasn't supposed to be here or have taken this job?  I certainly had more than one thought about not doing it and we had had several meetings to not do it, but wanted to be loyal to this person who asked us, not his company.  Did I not perceive God's direction?  ...  Then I realized that the whole conversation in my head was ludicrous.  

Somewhere a Christian has had his family broken apart, his wife and son and daughter taken, his wife used as a sex slave and passed around as each person gets tired of her, his daughter trained up to be a slave and used too early for evil, his son put in a brain-washing camp to be used as a fighter for evil, and he himself beaten, only kept alive so he can be beheaded for the world to see.

Somewhere a Christian is looking for food and water.  He might live in the slums of Honduras or Haiti.  He might have to look for scraps in the trash or find water in a ditch.  Somewhere a Christian mother is holding her child and sleeping in a box.  The box is their home. 

Did any of these not hear God's instruction?  Did they not perceive God's direction?  The question is ludicrous.  

All of us have not heard God's instruction.  All of us have not perceived God's direction.  We are all Adam and Eve.  We have all pursued our own desire at some time.  We have all wanted to be our own authority at some time.  Yet, God made a way.  This life is temporary.  We are just passing through this physical world.  The real world is the eternal, where God is and where God isn't.  

So, the only real question is have I decided to follow Jesus?  If so, how am I showing His love to His children, those who have decided and those who haven't.  Every possible other thing, will pass away.

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