A Day With a New Lesson

The Lord works in mysterious ways. Yesterday was an incredible day! It was one of those days that started out like it was going to be a monotonous one, but ended up being an awesome display of the power of God. He is concerned with our problems and things that concern us everyday. So today I would like to write about that experience.

The day started out like most days with the sun peaking it's head above the horizaon shooting rays of orange onto everything in its sight. I lazily rolled myself off the bed and walked slowly toward the family room, where an ice cold leather couch awaited me. However, this custom was not to be as I noticed my little sister sitting watching cartoons. "Oh well," I thought. "I guess I'll just go back where I came from and read there." When I got back into the room, I grabbed the Bible and the My Utmost for His Highest book, that was laying on the desk and started to read. The story out of the Bible that I read was about Jacob, Joseph and his two sons: Ephriam, and Mannaseh. In the My Utmost for His Highest book, I read about how people like to see in other people the image of them they have in their mind, but instead, they should look at people as God does. The interesting part was, that Joseph was doing this when he wanted his firstborn son to be blessed more than his second born. Jacob however, looked at people out of God's eyes and not out of the image that he had of who the person was. After reading worship, I went upstairs to look at the mess in my room. I could barely get the door open. Piles and piles of clothes filled my room; like a vast mountian range of things as high as the bed. To say I cleaned my room, would not be true, because it would take me more than 20 years to clean that mess! Ok, so I might be exagerating just a little, but you get the idea. After that, I moved back down to my brother's room and asked what we were going to do. The suggestion that day was that we go and help someone out. When we did, we ended up sitting around watching tv at their house and enjoying recees peanut buttercups and gateraid. After a wonderful meal we headed to our next house to continue our campaign for good, after not doing anything there either we went to the lake, where our dad was waiting for us, with the boat in the water. Now, at this point, in my mind, I wanted nothing to do with the water, or anything it had to offer. Instead, I wanted to sit back and relax on one of our two hammocks that overlooked the lake. However, after much coaxing by my dad, I finally submitted to the idea of getting in the boat, and I must say I was not the happiest on the inside. I quickly went up to the front of the boat, past the driver seat and sat in the seats that were at the tip of the boat. Grabbing onto the medal railings that were on either side, I held on with a pretty tight grip, as the boat started to speed up. My day was totally boring, I thought! Still thinking, I thought: Why does it seem that all the exciting things happen to me when I am in TN? Oh, well, another day down the drain! As we moved along, we passed a speed boat, with some police men in it, and continued on drifting down the lake. The wind blew in my face creating a rushing sound that drown out all other noises, and all I could hear was the occasional yelling behind me, because it is so loud. After we got down near the dam, toward the end of the lake, we pulled into a little inlet. As we boated our way down the inlet, we reduced speed to idle, and drifted quietly down the inlet commenting on the nice housing, and making suggestions where we could about the houses. The clouds were drifting along in an ocean of sun-tinted blue and there was a slight breeze. The radio played 80's music in the background. After drifting a ways, we decided to turn around. As we went to leave the outlet, there was a decision made to go for one last swim. So the boat was shut off and my brother threw himself into the water with his back hitting it first sending water in every direction. Pretty soon, it was time to move on, and so my brother got back into the boat. After he got into the boat, the key was turned one the engine, but... nothing happened! "Yes!" I thought to myself, "Finally some fun! Thanks God:)" (As we had been driving I talked to God and told Him how I was feeling.) As the boat sat stranded at the other end of the lake, I suggested we say a prayer. So we prayed, and not three minutes later the police boat that we passed came drifitng up, so I quickly flagged them down, and in no time we were on our way back to a marina, where we could get the battery replaced.

That day taught me an important lesson, and that is, that we should not always look at God the way we think that He is, because He is soo much different than we are, and it is exciting to know that we can't predict Him. He has shown us His character in His word, but that is as far as we can for sure know. God is an awesome friend, and like our relationship with people we can sometimes judge God by our ideas about Him, but this is not the case, He is soo incredible that we will be learning about His love through eternity. We will never truly know everything about God, and I think that is sooo awesome:)