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Friday, July 13, 2007
16:09
the perfect imperfect plan Having just put down the phone from yet another company that does random calls to homes asking "why are you not interested in saving money", I am sad to say, today has been the first of many months since I have ranted and raved at the person on the other line and have not at all shown the love of our Saviour through my voice and deeds. I am ashamed. I have just been reading a book about "controlling the tongue" or as the UK titles have it "Your words have power" by R.T Kendall, and I didn't think today would be the day I would fall. I guess one little thing does lead to another and soon, its all a blur, and you realise you much further back from where you begun. Those months of painfully patient steps have all been reversed in a split second. I put this partly down to me having idle time. I spend them playing mindless games, watching endless shows until I get a brain block, a headache, and I lose my very self to the things I struggled to lift myself out of. Like a man who cannot swim, having dropped into the pool, he clings unto the pool wall trying to pull himself up, but as he feels the weight of his wet clothes on his body, the strength in his arms slowly fades, and he struggles to lift himself. To get back to my title of the perfect imperfect plan, I wanted to draw a comparison between time, and the lack of time. Ironically, it was during the times when I lacked any free time, when I was most polite, and was able to keep my head above the water and out of the pool, making every scrap of time to learn more about God. Yet, in times of "so-called freedom" I find myself losing patience, drowning and not finding much time for God in my very un-busy life. Life's strange. Being busy isn't perfect, yet it was perfect. Being free seems perfect, yet it isn't perfect. God's truly mysterious, to have made me realise this, just by a 30 second shout at a guy I don't even know. If I could, I would like most humbly to apologise to him, but before that, I must thank God for making me realise my mistakes before its too late! His perfect plans for our lives may seem imperfect to us, but he will always give us the strength to carry on into perfection. Life is never how it seems, especially with God on your side! "When times are good, be happy; When times are bad, consider: God has made one as well as the other. Therefore a man cannot discover anything about his future." Ecclesiastes 7:14 |