Promises and Laughter

Wherever you are today and whatever God has you busy doing, I pray that you feel lifted up by the grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 

Last night on my way home, I took this photo in my rear view mirror. We are reminded through Scripture to look for God’s promises out there as we live our lives. Sometimes that is in looking back and sometimes it is in looking way out in front of us.  Here is the truth, whether we see it or not, it does not diminish God’s promise because God’s promises are good and true. God will do what God has said and shown. Be on the look out for those promises in your days.

This Scripture from Romans 12:1-2, in the Message Version, brings our daily lives into focus. The section is entitled: Place Your Life Before God

2 ^1-2 So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you and develops well-formed maturity in you.

Remember always, God is helping you. 

A little humor for your day as well through this story of Thankfulness:

There was a woman at work when she received a phone call that her daughter was very sick with a fever. She left work and stopped by the pharmacy to get some medication for her daughter. She returned to her car to find that she had locked the keys inside the car.

She didn’t know what to do and started to panic, so she called home and told the baby sitter what had happened and that she did not know what to do. The baby sitter told her to find a coat hanger and see if that would open the door. The woman looked around and found an old coat hanger that had been thrown down on the ground, possibly by someone else who also had locked their keys in their car. Then she looked at the hanger and said, “I don’t know how to use this.” So she began to pray and asked God to send her some help. 

Just then a motorcycle rumbled into the parking space next to her car. A rough looking biker got off and saw her situation. He asked if he could help her. The woman thought, “This is what you sent to help me, God?” With no other options she told him yes, as she needed to hurry and get home to her sick daughter. He walked over to the car, and in a few seconds her car was opened. 

She hugged the man and said, “Thank you so much! You are such a nice man.” The man replied; “No, I’m not, Lady. I just got out of prison for car theft.” The woman hugged the man again and with sobbing tears cried out to God, “You even sent me a professional.”

 I needed that laugh today. Maybe you did too.

Be well in grace. You are loved.