Listen, when you’re saved you can find a lesson in anything. Let me tell y’all…I have been going through it. And I mean, the type of situation(s) where you don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel and your flashlight just flickered and died kind of thing.
So this morning, I’m feeling sick (thanks DMV) so I was preparing hot water for some emergen-c. I KNOW that I hit 10oz because I wasn’t sure if the (very fitting Da Vinci) mug I was using could even hold 12oz. It filled to the very tippity tip top and I thought…this world is really trying to break me y’all. As I made the walk to try and dump out the water, I’ll admit that my first thought was of the scene in The Golden Child when Eddie Murphy has to traverse a room w/ no floor by balancing on giant redwood stumps.
But my second thought was of God. I was in my own home, walking to the kitchen trying not to spill the water, and yet I was rushing. I was spilling droplets because I was walking too fast. Had nowhere to be and all of the time in the world to get to the sink, yet I was walking so fast to get there that I was taking water out of my own cup in the process.
Furthermore, on the walk back from the sink I now had to stop and clean up all of the droplets and splashes of water that had fallen, thus creating even more work for an already exhausted self to make sure that no one else was negatively affected by a mess that wasn't theirs. And I began composing this devotional in my head as I cleaned.
I went to look up a Bible scripture about taking your time and I came upon a familiar Ecclesiastes verse “There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heavens.” This wasn’t the verse I was looking for, but I kept reading anyway, because sometimes you just let the spirit lead as the old folks say. Then I noticed that this was the verse that Ren read from in Footloose that changed the Reverend’s and councils minds and allowed the dance that changed the whole town to happen. That’s what God wanted me to know this morning. That there will be a time…to dance. Trouble don’t last always and although I don’t see a way out at this moment, I’m confident that “All thing work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose (Romans 8:28).” I don't know when. I don't know how. But what I do know is that my time is coming. And so is yours.
And that’s the difference. That’s how I keep going. Because my God might let me fail, but he will never let me fall (Psalms 121: 3-5).
Amen.
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