NOTE: Leave a comment. Anita is giving away three copies of her Where God Finds You devotional book. The devotion below is not one of those in the book.
My
Sweaty Little Grasp
By
Anita Higman
“Never will I leave you; never will I
forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5b (NIV)
Life can be like a pretty yellow
kite, soaring and dipping in the breeze, and life can also be like that same
kite experiencing an unexpected gust only to plummet to the earth and break into
pretty yellow pieces.
In other words, I can’t fully
control the kite. It’s controlled by the currents that are above and far out of
reach. The kite string may be in my sweaty little grasp, but its final
destination is anyone guess.
That was a lesson I learned when I
traveled to Australia to meet my husband who was there working on assignment
for his company. I left the house, knowing I wouldn’t be back for three weeks,
and that I’d be very far away, so I planned for every kind of troubling
scenario. I made sure all the faucets weren’t dripping. Check. Gates closed.
Check. Electrical devices unplugged. Check. Windows and doors locked, alarm
system armed. Check.
To be honest, my slight case of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder flared
up into a blaze. It was so hard to let the house go and breathe again. But I
did try to cover it all as best I could, so that when the driver picked me up I
felt pretty satisfied that the house was somewhat disaster-proof. Yeah, right.
Not even close. There was no way I could have known that my husband and I would
have to fly home from Australia early because Hurricane Ike would hit our
neighborhood and ruin one of the rooms in our house. It was impossible to plan
for everything because I never really had our home under my control. Not even
for a minute. I only thought I did.
The spiritual lesson here was hard to
miss. Only God was and is in control of our house, my life, this world. We cannot
know what tomorrow will bring, whether our pretty yellow kite will soar into
the sky or smash into bits, but I do know God has promised never to leave us or
forsake us. He will always be right here, holding us and helping us, ever by
our sides working things for good no matter what the wild winds of life bring.
These are promises that the whole world loves to make, but only God Almighty
can keep.
Lord, I thank you that even in this
fallen and broken world, you will never leave us or forsake us. Amen.
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