Inspirations

For the next few days, I am going to write about some things that we say, but that God will not or does not say. God does not say “whoops" nor does he say, “I didn’t see that coming.”  You and I are often surprised by the twists and turns in life,  but the all-knowing God never is.  When Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit in the garden,  God was not surprised.    Nor was he astounded when a shepherd boy became a king.    And when the King of Assyria invaded, he was not blindsided in the least.  In fact, he was working His plan even in the things that no one could have expected  or seen happening.  James puts it like this, “Now listen, you who say,  “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city,  spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”  Why you do not even know what will happen tomorrow.  What is yo...

Today as we were on our way to the movies, I took a side road to bypass some road construction.   I thought that since I knew the road it would be a time saver.  As I turned onto the road that would bring me back on to the road that I had been on, I spotted a huge sign standing boldly, proudly in the middle of the road that said, “Road closed, Bridge out.”  Wonderful!  Now what?  I could turn around, go back, and go through the roadwork or I could stay on the road I was on and try to find another connecting road.   I thought that I could probably find another road since I am usually good in this area.  At this point, if I had been smart, I would have turned on my GPS, just in case I needed it.  I wasn’t smart.  We went on. It wasn’t long before we came to a road that seemed to go in the direction I was hoping for so we turned on the road.  The farther we went, the more concerned I became nothing looked familiar.  ...