Bad Hair Day

 

Thursday morning, I waited in the Burger King parking lot for my daughter to meet me to drop off my grandson for the day.  We meet half-way (at Burger King) so that neither of us have to drive too far.  A large SUV pulled up and an older lady got out of the passenger side.  She opened the back door, got out her cape and her purse, and then said something to someone in the driver side.  Moments later, her husband (I assume) got out of the driver’s side, met her in front of the vehicle, and they both went into Burger King to get breakfast.  I chuckled to myself at his hair.  He had obviously not washed his hair that morning because I saw his “bed head” of hair smashed against his head.  But he was unaware of his tousled hair.  He had ignored the mirrors in his house.  But he made me laugh, and for that, I thank him.  After my grandson and I had worked all morning out in the cold, we went to Chick fil-A for lunch.  Since we had been digging post holes for a wooden fence, I went to the restroom to wash my dirty hands.  But when I looked into the mirror above the lavatory, I saw that my hair had been mushed down by my hat into an interesting shape.  As I had walked into Chick fil-A a few moments earlier and had taken off my hat, I knew exactly what the staff had thought, because that was exactly what I had thought that morning.  Proverbs 29:23, “A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.”  I was prideful Thursday morning, but I thank the dear Lord for showing me how prideful I was Thursday afternoon.

Control

 

Four years ago, I lost my passenger side mirror to an eighteen-wheeler who felt the need to be in control of the interstate.  I was in the left lane and slower traffic was in the right lane.  As both lanes of traffic approached the I-75/24 merge, this trucker decided that no one should get ahead of him, so he pulled left to block both lanes.  But I was in the left lane that he was attempting to block.  I tried to slow down and drop in behind him, but he came over and I lost my mirror in the process.  I was fortunate not to have been in an accident (not that my mirror doesn’t count).  He just did not want anyone to pass him.  He thought that he was in charge of the interstate.  Hey, do you know someone who is controlling?  They are not satisfied with controlling themselves, they must control others too.  Paul said that we should not try to control one another, but that we should be kind one to another.  Paul said in Ephesians 4:32, “And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”  Instead of control, let’s practice love today.  Instead of force, let’s use kindness.  It might make a change in your world.  It WILL make a change in yourself!

Just a Stick

 

Exodus 4:2, “And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.”  Just a stick.  Moses was a shepherd for his father-in-law, Jethro, in Midian.  The only thing he had to work with was his shepherd’s staff, a stick.  But what a stick it was!  Today, we might not think much of a stick.  Today we would use a Milwaukee stick or a DeWalt stick.  And if we were just ordinary, we would use a Ryobi stick or a Metabo stick.  But just a stick stick?  How could we do anything with just a simple stick?  But that’s the point!  God uses ordinary objects in the hands of His faithful servants to perform His miraculous things!  But why?  So that God might get the glory and not the stick or the user of the stick!  I Corinthians 1:27&29, “But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; That no flesh should glory in his presence.”  Hey, use your ordinary tools and your ordinary skills to glorify God!  God will be pleased, hearts will be changed, and you will be blessed.