BBD 08.20.15 Things Happen (Classic)
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The Burning
Bush Devotional
Classic
from 2008
08.20.15
Things
Happen
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 your life? You are a mist that
appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it
is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast and
brag. All such boasting is evil. Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to
do and doesn't do it, sins. - James 4:13-17 NKJV.
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally
and without reproach, and it will be given to him. - James 1:5 NKJV.
Last week (2008) a woman who lives in Levy County,
Florida saw some kind of animal in her yard, and she went outside to check it out.
The animal turned out to be a fox, and it attacked her. The fox bit her on the
leg but wouldn’t turn loose, and so she told her husband to go get their rifle.
The husband did manage to kill the fox after firing seven rounds from the .22
caliber gun, but he also hit his wife once in the lower leg. She apparently is
going to be okay.
Early in our marriage, Jeanie and I were both working at
a cotton gin that my father-in-law managed. Our car needed a tune up and there
was a garage close to the gin that I took it to. Not long afterwards Jeanie and
I heard the sirens of fire engines. We all wondered where they were going since
this was a small city. It wasn’t long before I found out. The mechanic came
from the garage that I had taken our car to. He said that the fire had been…my
car! All the wiring and everything except the block under the hood had been
destroyed.
We contacted our insurance agent, and he tried to go to
the garage to check out the damage. But he couldn’t check out the damage,
because the garage was locked up. The mechanic had left and went to California
for a week with our damaged car locked up in his garage. We did finally gain
access to the car and after another week our car was finally repaired.
Sometimes the cost of a tune up is higher than you might think.
Life seems to always have the potential to throw us a
curve ball when we least expect it. We think we know what tomorrow will bring,
but we really have no control. We think we will have good health for many years
to come, but we know that tomorrow all that could change. We think that we have
many years to live our lives for the Lord, but the end of our life could be
today. We think that we have plenty of time to reach that neighbor, friend, or
relative with the good news of Jesus. But the truth is we may never have
another opportunity.
The truth is that life has twists and turns that none of
us can predict or foresee. Unexpected things occur in the life of every person
on a frequent basis. Some of those occurrences are big, some are little, and
some are life changing. Things happen! However, God does know what is coming
around the corner and He is the only One who really knows. Let us not depend on
our fallible human wisdom, knowledge and resources; but instead seek the wisdom,
and guidance of the Lord for each step of every day. “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all
liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him (James 1:5).”
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