....just suppose
Just suppose... that everything you knew of as life... suddenly stopped! I mean... just like that. Wham... the door shuts... everything stops. It happens all the time... to everybody eventually... to me it's happened so many times I've lost count! Ask our friends the Rodmans... one day everything is normal... everything is moving along according to plan... and suddenly... wham... everything stops... nothing is the same.... nothing is familiar... nothing makes sense.... what's going on here anyway?
One day I'm sitting on top of the world... next day my marriage falls apart... the next day my manufacturing building burns down... the next day I'm too broke to go bankrupt... another day our daughter is born with a hole in her heart.... the next day Ellen has miscarriage...the next day our son has leukemia... another day God shuts down my perfect religious system.... failure upon failure.... difficulty upon difficulty... then the Lord finally lets me shut the doors on the next failure... my restaurant... totally broke again... Five times in my life I had to start all over again with nothing in the bank to do the starting over with. Plan A, plan B, Plan C.... no end of plans... and none of them go the way I planned the plans to go until the voice says ... "you might as well just press the accelerator and fly off into that rock wall down the road"
So what's this all about? It's about that narrowing of my life... the one I wrote about the other day... what I do is not important... my relationship with God is what is important. I get there through the narrow gate.... the only thing on the other side of the narrow gate ... is Jesus... we leave all our plans outside... all the great things we were going to do... all the hopes and dreams and ambitions... and we leave them all out there... they don't go with us thru the narrow gate...
When there is nothing else that I want besides Him... then He will do with us .... what He plans to do... and everything we have thought of as life will change once again...
:)
One day I'm sitting on top of the world... next day my marriage falls apart... the next day my manufacturing building burns down... the next day I'm too broke to go bankrupt... another day our daughter is born with a hole in her heart.... the next day Ellen has miscarriage...the next day our son has leukemia... another day God shuts down my perfect religious system.... failure upon failure.... difficulty upon difficulty... then the Lord finally lets me shut the doors on the next failure... my restaurant... totally broke again... Five times in my life I had to start all over again with nothing in the bank to do the starting over with. Plan A, plan B, Plan C.... no end of plans... and none of them go the way I planned the plans to go until the voice says ... "you might as well just press the accelerator and fly off into that rock wall down the road"
So what's this all about? It's about that narrowing of my life... the one I wrote about the other day... what I do is not important... my relationship with God is what is important. I get there through the narrow gate.... the only thing on the other side of the narrow gate ... is Jesus... we leave all our plans outside... all the great things we were going to do... all the hopes and dreams and ambitions... and we leave them all out there... they don't go with us thru the narrow gate...
When there is nothing else that I want besides Him... then He will do with us .... what He plans to do... and everything we have thought of as life will change once again...
:)
