BBD 05.29.15 Things Happen (New)
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The Burning
Bush Devotional
05.29.15
Things Happen
And lest I should be exalted above
measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to
me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure. Concerning
this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. And
He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect
in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that
the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities,
in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For
when I am weak, then I am strong. - 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 NKJV.
Now I take limitations in stride,
and with good cheer, these limitations that cut me down to size—abuse,
accidents, opposition, bad breaks. I just let Christ take over! And so the
weaker I get, the stronger I become. - 2 Corinthians 12:10 MSG.
Joseph T. Brennan, Jr. had an accident, sort
of. Brennan describes the cause of his
accident by saying: “I lit a cigarette with the gunpowder in the front seat.”
The cigarette ignited the gunpowder, and then, BOOM!, there was an explosion.
He reportedly told the police, “I wasn’t going to do anything malicious.” The
explosion blew out the car windshield along with other car windows, and blew
Brennan out of his car. He suffered burns, and his hair was singed. Officers
searched his car, searched his house, and charged him with one count of
possession of components of a destructive device and three counts of possession
of a destructive device. Police officials say that Brennan did not have
malicious intent, and his neighbors were not in any danger. Well, unless he decided
to smoke a cigarette at his house. (Patriot Ledger 04.14.15)
Joseph Brennan was the source of
his accident; however, many of us simply encounter unexpectedly things that
just happen. James Crawford was on his way to work in New Jersey in 2012 when the
operator of a construction crane allowed a gigantic steel beam to float into
the traffic stream. The beam ripped off the entire top of Crawford's van.
Crawford suffered a few cuts and a broken thumb. Morgan Lake in 2013 was on her
way to visit relatives when her accident occurred. It was not her fault that a
large semi-truck did not slow down, and pushed Morgan's car off of the
Chesapeake Bay Bridge. The windshield and the driver's side window had been
shattered by the impact, and the car plunged three stories into the bay. The
vehicle quickly began to sink; Morgan unbuckled her seat belt, somehow got out
of the shattered driver's side window, and swam to the surface. She suffered
only bruises from her accident.
These accidents that I have
mentioned are only a few of the millions of things that happen to people every
day. Some accidents are caused by our own carelessness, or the carelessness of
others. The cause of some accidents, are hard to explain. Of course the crash
of a plane on a routine flight in the Congo, was easy to determine. Someone had
brought a small crocodile onto the plane. The pilot and 18 passengers were
killed in the crash. The crocodile escaped from the bag it was in, and the
passengers panicked; stampeding forward, they caused the plane to plummet to
the ground. There was one survivor, and he reportedly took care of the
crocodile with a machete before exiting the remains of the plane (Mailonline
07.23.14).
Every day on Planet Earth, there
are millions, perhaps billions of good and bad things that happen. This is a
fact of life, and the proof of this is all around us. These good and bad things
happen not only to non-believers, but also to believers. The message from God
through the apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 12 in part
is that we should not let these things that happen hinder our service to the
Lord. Through the writer of Ecclesiastes God
gives us a similar message: “If the clouds are full of rain,
they empty themselves upon the earth; and if a tree falls to the south or the
north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall lie. He who observes
the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap
(Ecclesiastes 11:3-4 NKJV).” The message is the same; don’t let the
things that happen on this earth prevent you from sowing a crop. Continue on
living the Christian life, share the gospel, and sow the seeds of Truth (John 14:6) everywhere and every time you possibly
can.
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