Murphy Lesson

By now most who read this blog know that I bought Connie a Yorkie for Christmas two years ago.  She is cute...when she is good...which is...never mind.

Anyway, I am unpacking boxes during our move last week, and Murphy (who is "helping") starts begging...for the razor blade box cutter that I have in my hand.  I can't explain exactly why she thought she should have it, what she thought it was, or what she thought it could do for her, but she danced and whined and looked up at me with those big eyes saying, "please?".

Any idea what would have happened if I had given it to her?

I am so thankful that God doesn't always give me everything I think I should have, and that's not something I always think WHILE I'm asking for it.  Sometimes I wonder why my "faith failed", not realizing that God knows what is good for me, and what I'm asking for that might actually kill me! 

Other sides to this are the times when God tells us to do things or not to do things, and we really don't agree with the direction the Holy Spirit is going...and we ignore Him.  Big mistake.  BIG MISTAKE.  He knows what's around the corner in our lives.  How many tough situations could we have avoided if we had listened?

As a pastor, I have the responsibility of coaching people in the Word, and it's amazing to me the people who don't want to listen...not to me...but to the Word.  The Word outlines who you should and shouldn't be friends with, where you should and shouldn't go in your spare time, how you should honor your employer, what words you should and shouldn't  speak, your relationship to your church, and I could go on and on.  Let's don't be those people that think there are parts of the Bible that only apply to everybody else and not to us.  Let's be doers of the Word and not hearers only!

   

Comments

[Vanessa T.]

oh how I love Murphy lessons. & to think I almost went my whole life without knowing how much I could learn about the relationship between God & I through my Pastor's yorkie. haha. I love it!