On The Front Side...

ON THE FRONT SIDE…What is it about human nature that forgets the past miraculous interventions of God at the first sight of a new challenge? I don’t get it. But we all do it, don’t we.
“They did not remember his power, or the day when he redeemed them from the foe, when he performed his signs in Egypt and his marvels in the fields of Zoan.”. ~Psalm 78:42-43
Most of us have some great stories about God showing up in the most interesting way and bailing us out just in the knick of time. Whether it’s the way Christ saved us, or the way He made a miraculous provision from an unseen source or the way He literally shredded a threat that was pressing against us, we have our stories of how God showed up for us. And yet, these are the last things we think about when we are faced with a new and present problem, aren’t they. Almost instinctively we go into panic mode, our memory goes blank and we start thrashing like we’re drowning. In our panic we actually start to believe that this threat is way worse than any previous one, so the miraculous God stories don’t apply this time. Actually, we’re just facing another…ole fashion...run of the mill…impossibility. The kind that are common to man. We’ve seen em before, we’ll see em again, and some are here now. Boy are we going to feel stupid when He shows up again…like He always does…and dissolves away the impossibility…like He always does…and restores our balance…like He always does. Think we can ever learn to remember ON THE FRONT SIDE? ~verlon