I Don't Know Why I Thought of the Fly
A few days ago I was driving my car when all of the sudden I heard it, and then I saw it - a really big fly buzzing around, frantically trying to escape my moving vehicle. Bug splats on the outside of the windshield are annoying enough, but live bugs on the inside of the windshield is just a big NO in my book. However, I took pity on him and figured I'd roll down the side window and let him out. So while movin' on down the road I began opening and closing car windows - I rolled down the passenger window but he wouldn't leave, I rolled down the driver's side window, but he wouldn't leave, I rolled them both down together, and he wouldn't leave - all while trying to stop and go on Florida Avenue with a million traffic lights. The one thing that fly wanted most was what I was trying to give him, but he was bound and determined to get what he wanted his own way. He wanted to go through the front windshield, and he was so blinded by his own focus that he completely missed his opportunity.
Ever feel like this? I'm certain I've been guilty of it. Lord, I want what I want, when I want it, how I want it! I'm working so hard to accomplish my goal, but maybe the way I'm going about it won't work. Maybe God's saying - "Hey, over here!" "Psst! That window's closed, but this window's open!" Maybe if I decided to stop my frenzied flight it would give me time to look around and see that God has already made a way - it's just not the way I expected. Life has so many roads to choose and paths to walk. It's good to stop and get some directions from the Master. If I'm enclosed in sorrow or grief, troubles or despair, and I'm looking for a way out, He can show me - and that definitely beats slamming my head against a closed glass window over and over any day! ~ LL
Live and learn - and learn again.
"I know the plans I have for you - Plans to prosper you, not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." - Jeremiah 29:11
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