I’ve been thinking lately, or maybe a better thought is that God has been revealing to me lately that maybe I don’t have it as bad as I think I do. I am beginning to see how blessed I truly am.
The other day I was driving back from Birmingham and there was a wreck on the interstate. Traffic was backed up more than five miles when I came to a crawl behind it. I can only imagine it was more than ten miles long by the time I cleared the accident scene and regained my speed. Forty-five minutes to travel about five miles. Was I being tested? Did I pass?
While I was inching my way towards the site of the accident I prayed that God would help all those involved. The victims, the emergency personnel and the officers, family and friends. Then I began to think of other wrecks I had seen over the years. The aftermath of some was devastating to families and friends and co-workers. How lucky, how fortunate, how Blessed was I to be driving back instead of riding in an ambulance or a tow truck? Worse yet I could be in a body bag on my way to the morgue.
Suddenly I found myself thinking about hospitals and all of the people in them. Sick and dying, routine and emergency surgeries, physical therapy, cancer, diabetes, heart attacks, and the list goes on. How fortunate am I?
All at once I felt like I was slapped in my face. My problems were like crying over spilled milk. I can’t help but think how much better I have it than what could be and what is for those poor suffering souls. Praise God for what I have and for what He has planned for me, my family and my church.
I ask You Lord to bless those who are suffering Lord. Those in the Hospital Lord need your healing touch, those who have lost loved ones need Your comforting Spirit, those who have become weak under the strain of this life need Your strength. The weary souls need Your protection Lord God, they need You to lift them to new heights, far above the turmoil and pain of this world they are trapped in for a time. Bless us all Lord God, bless each one in the way we truly need and not the way “we think” we need. Give us the desire to know You more Father, to know Your Word more Father, give us the strength to walk the path You have laid out for us. Help us not to stray from that path Lord, clear the obstacles from our way and give us favorable weather to travel this spiritual journey. Shelter us when the storms roll through Father and shine Your light on us again when the clouds have gone. We love You Lord God, we thank You for who you are and not what you do for us. We thank you for being love Father. What more could we ask than the Sacrifice You have already made Christ Jesus! Thank You our Savior! Thank You!
