She is a Labrador Retriever. She is a water dog. So why does she hate rain? During our walk today we got caught in a serious downpour. This was soak your socks rain. This was drip off your nose and wish you had windshield wipers on your glasses rain. So we stepped into a wooded area for some shelter. While standing there in the shelter of the leaves we were still being drenched. She proceeded to push between my legs and sit down. I had become her umbrella. Under his wings is nice but really now, I think I was being used.
Do we ever use God? Or should I say try to use God. Do we ask God to do things for us we can do ourselves? “Lord, help me pass this exam.” Well, maybe we wouldn’t need to ask that if we had studied. “Lord, help me get this job.” But, maybe we didn’t do our homework on the company and its needs. “Lord, give us a safe journey today.” And then drive 90 miles an hour!
God is eager to help us. But He is a good parent who at some point says get off the couch and get humping. Remember the paralytic wasn’t healed until he made the effort to stand up. The blind man wasn’t healed until he went and washed the mud off his eyes. We are not talking about salvation. That is God’s job. We are talking about the practicalities and successes of this life. Those are our jobs. We are given talents to use. The man in the parable who buried his talent didn’t make his master very happy.
Written by Roger Bothwell on August 17, 2016
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