Diary
January 11, 2016
Matthew 19:26 “With God all things are possible.”
I have lots of favorite quotes. One of them is, “Never write in your diary on the day itself because it takes longer than a day to know what happened.” It’s easy to jump to conclusions, isn’t it? Sometimes we jump way too quickly. You know how something happened to you a year, five, ten, twenty years ago and at the time you thought it was the worst thing ever and that your life was completely over. Now when you look back from a distance, you have an entirely different perspective on those events. God brought some good out of those things that you thought nothing good could possibly come. You grew in ways that you could never imagine because of that event where you thought your life was over. We jump to conclusions way too soon. Israel stood before the Red Sea and concluded that it was over. They had no way to escape. It was hopeless. The little boy with the slingshot and a few rocks stood before a giant. There was no way he could win that battle. Jesus died on the cross. It was over. He was buried in a grave, and a stone was rolled over His tomb. When you are going through a tough time and you are up against it and you are thinking that life is over and that it’s done, don’t forget that we have a God who can do some incredible things. A giant was defeated, a sea was rolled back, a stone rolled away from the tomb, and a dead man came back to life. You see, never write in your diary on the day itself because it takes longer than a day to know what happened. Don’t jump to conclusions. Just wait and see what God can do. –
I have lots of favorite quotes. One of them is, “Never write in your diary on the day itself because it takes longer than a day to know what happened.” It’s easy to jump to conclusions, isn’t it? Sometimes we jump way too quickly. You know how something happened to you a year, five, ten, twenty years ago and at the time you thought it was the worst thing ever and that your life was completely over. Now when you look back from a distance, you have an entirely different perspective on those events. God brought some good out of those things that you thought nothing good could possibly come. You grew in ways that you could never imagine because of that event where you thought your life was over. We jump to conclusions way too soon. Israel stood before the Red Sea and concluded that it was over. They had no way to escape. It was hopeless. The little boy with the slingshot and a few rocks stood before a giant. There was no way he could win that battle. Jesus died on the cross. It was over. He was buried in a grave, and a stone was rolled over His tomb. When you are going through a tough time and you are up against it and you are thinking that life is over and that it’s done, don’t forget that we have a God who can do some incredible things. A giant was defeated, a sea was rolled back, a stone rolled away from the tomb, and a dead man came back to life. You see, never write in your diary on the day itself because it takes longer than a day to know what happened. Don’t jump to conclusions. Just wait and see what God can do. –