Smelly day

Well my day didn’t start off well. I got up to take a shower and there was no water. I have to give my testimony at a men’s prayer group in Thomasville Georgia early this morning and didn’t figure they might want to be around me in such a condition, especially if any of them have a keen sense of smell, so I decided to drive over to our lodge and take a shower over there. It was about 20 degrees outside and loading up my clothes and shaving gear was not the most pleasant thing I ever did at 3 a.m. in the freezing cold dressed only in my pajamas and little furry slippers.

After showering and getting dressed I went to my office to print the notes for my testimony and directions to the event. My printer was out of paper and of course I couldn’t find any. ARGHHHH!

Fortunately my wife who I accidentally woke up as I floundered around looking for clothes in the dark at 3 a.m. decided to just go ahead and get up and come on in to the office and get a head-start on her day. She knew where the printer paper was “hidden” and calmly gave me a big stack of it and smiled at me and I was back in business. In a minute she brought me a hot cup of steaming java to further soothe my flared temper. (Such an angel)

I wonder what else might go wrong. I already checked to make sure that my pants are zipped up. I hope I don’t have a flat tire, or go to the wrong location, or run over a deer, or something.

My wife was telling me that she believes our church in the Keys undergoes satanic attack prior to our Christmas Pageant. Every year some catastrophe hits just prior to the event; this year it was a fire and one of the participants fell and injured herself; last year the director had a tragic death in her family just prior to the event; the year before the top performers and singers had problems that nearly prevented them from participating, and on and on. I’m happy to report that regardless of satan and his attacks the pageants were held and lots of people ended up accepting Christ as their Savior at this event, and in the Keys that is saying something and absolutely awesome.

Don’t get discouraged if your efforts to do the right thing for the Lord are met head-on by a string of calamities. It’s merely satan and his little band of merry urchins trying to rain on your parade. Christ is always victorious in the end over satan. Just calmly fight your way through them and refrain from following my lead and spewing thunderous oaths and pitching childlike fits.

What do we do when Satan attacks us? How are we to respond? Do you remember when the Lord Jesus was on the cross, the humiliation of the crucifixion was not sufficient for satan’s people, they continued to revile him verbally while His life’s blood flowed out of His body. His response to their satanic attacks was: “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do”

Yikes my response to my satanic attack wasn’t anywhere close to that. I need to look towards the heavens I tell you

I tell you something else – My plantation manager better have that water working by the time I return.

Sigh some of us are incorrigible or maybe it’s just me? Naw…. Some of you need to hear this too… Amen?

John 16:33
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”