Welllllll, today's Mona Girl Blog was going to be a LOL! Take 2 but Our Lord has something else in mind (smile). When I went to check out the Jokes I was going to include in LOL! Take 2, Holy Spirit led me to the following Joke that has now morphed into today's Post - EYES WIDE OPEN???
There was a Preacher who fell in the ocean and he couldn't swim. When a boat came by, the captain yelled, "Do you need help, sir?" The Preacher calmly said "No, God will save me." A little later, another boat came by and a fisherman asked, "Hey, do you need help?" The Preacher replied again, "No God will save me." Eventually the Preacher drowned and went to heaven. The Preacher asked God, "Why didn't you save me?" God replied, "I sent you TWO boats!"
LOL! Yeah, now that's funny but at the same time.....oh so sad.......and a Preacher no less!! And aren't we sometimes just like the drowning Preacher? We are asking God for His Help, for Him to rescue us, for Him to save us, for Him to make everything all right.....while at the same time our Eyes are Shut to His Answer..........to His God-selected form of Help.
Whewee!! I can raise my hand (actually both hands...way up high) in this class!! There have been times when I've been desperate for Our Lord's Help, for Him to show up and show out in my situation/circumstance and after looking back.....I've realized (more like He's told me just like He did with the Preacher), HE DID ANSWER MY PRAYER! It was just not the way (person, place or thing) or in the manner by which Mona thought how My Heavenly Father would answer me. Oh Yeah!! Adds a whole new meaning (Thank you Jesus!!) to the Scripture:
"For my thoughts are not as your thoughts, neither are your ways as my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts more than your thoughts." (Isaiah 55:8-9, Jubilee)
I was expecting, thinking, assuming Our Heavenly Father would show up and Answer my Prayer/Help Me/etc. by Mona's limited, finite vision, by the way I saw Him working in my life. In other words, my Eyes were Shut to Our Lord's way of handling my situation. I was so focused on how Mona would handle the circumstance, I did not see My Sovereign Lord's Mighty Hand when He showed up.
Family, don't know if you've been where I've been......felt what I've felt......but I want to share with you that Our Lord ALWAYS Answers our Prayers...our S.O.S. cries for Help. But in most cases, the life raft Our Heavenly Father sends our way may NOT look like what we expected.....may NOT be what we had hoped for.....may NOT be exactly in the manner or timing we envisioned..........but if we look at our circumstance/situation with our Eyes Wide OPEN (instead of being closed to or unaware of any other resolution besides our own), I guarantee your Prayer will be Answered by **THE ONE** in THE BEST WAY........HIS GOD-ORDAINED, PERFECT TIMING WAY!! Which is ALWAYS better than anything we could come up with on our own.....#HE'sPerfect!!
"As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the Lord is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him." (Psalm 18:30, NKJV)
And having learned this Lesson (after a few times around my self-inflicted mountain - LOL!), I NOW am chill-laxin in the space of understanding that Our Lord and Savior will use ALLLLL sorts of people, places or things to come to my aid...to move Heaven and Earth for Mona!! I have NOW learned to expect HIM with my Eyes Wide OPEN!! I don't want to be like Preacher Man and miss His life-saving boat!! So my mindset has changed to watching and waiting for HIS Way.......to being on alert for HIS Solution (which, Again, is ALWAYS THE BEST) for handling my life stuff. And knowing that Our Heavenly Papa LOVES surprises......Oh Yeah!! No telling how He's going to show up and surprise You with His mind blowing answer....so keep your Eyes Wide OPEN!!
Well, my Loves, as I close out today's Mona Girl Blog, it's clear that when it comes to Our Lord's Blog, I am operating with my Eyes (and ears for that matter) Wide OPEN or we wouldn't have ended up here today. Sooooo, maybe next week we'll revisit LOL! Take 2?? Hmmmm but WE know, that ALL depends on Him :)
Also Family, FYI.............
Our Lord has put on my heart to start a Prayer & Praise Line! And YOU KNOW ME, I am uber **Obedient** when it comes to His Suggestions, so I AM ON IT!! The calls will be the last Sunday of the Month, with the next call being Sunday, May 31st. Dial-in anonymously, give your name at the prompt, join in for a few minutes or the entire hour......however you choose to participate is completely up to you :)
Time: 7:00p - 8:00p ET
Dial-In Number: (605) 477-2100
Passcode: 343645#
**Feel free to email me at wincty@aol.com if you have any questions prior to the call.
Continued Success and Blessings Family!!
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