It has been an interesting week. I had to go to the city to have an appointment and all went well. But on the way back to home I learnt something that I have not forgotten. You see, it is like this. Over the years that I have been travelling along the line I have noticed that there was a line going off to the left as I headed for home, somewhere between Ballan and Ballarat. A few times I had seen it and felt confident that I knew where it was. But for the last few months I could not find it and it was becoming very frustrating. Why could I not see that line? I had seen it enough times to know that it was not my own imagination. It had to be there somewhere, but where was it.
This last week I was back on the train coming home but this time I sat on the side facing the direction that the train would be travelling in. I was determined that I would get it right this time. So travelling home I had made sure that the line I was looking for was not on the Melbourne side of Ballan. Now had come the test for looking for where it really was. Did I find the line? Yes. Was it where I thought that it would be? No! I did not appreciate that there were two hills that the train went around and that the line went off to the left after the first hill and not the second, as I was believing. Because I was believing that it was the second I would not start looking for it until it was all too late. It made me stop and think. How many of us can have ideas about things only to find that what we are thinking can be all so wrong? And you know something, I wonder if this also applies to how we think about God? That we are all too willing to think bad things about God when really what we need to appreciate is that God is love. Have you found this out for yourself yet? Open the Bible and take a look at what it says. You will be surprised, I am sure.
Maybe something for us all to ponder at this time. Until next time may you each be kept safe in His care.
