Matilda!

 

The story is told of a man visiting an insane asylum.  Inside a padded cell was a patient banging his head against the wall wailing, “Matilda, Matilda, Matilda!”  The visitor asked the doctor for an explanation.  The doctor replied, “Oh this poor man was rejected by Matilda and went totally mad.”  In the next padded cell, another patient was banging his head against the wall wailing, “Matilda, Matilda, Matilda!”  The visitor again asked the doctor for an explanation.  The doctor replied, “Oh this poor man married Mathilda and ...”  Have you ever wanted something (or someone) so badly, only to be disappointed when you got what you asked for?  Many things in life are only fleeting fancies.  We long for the idea of having trinkets only to be disappointed when we secure them.  But I am so glad that the Lord Jesus Christ never disappoints!  I trusted Jesus almost seventy years ago, and he has never disappointed me once!  While Paul was writing to the church in Ephesus, he got so excited about the dear Lord that he broke out into a benediction right in the middle of the book!  Paul said in Ephesians 3:20&21, “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.”  Right on, Paul!  Praise the Lord!