The day Jeremiah stopped a grumbler
I woke up feeling bad. I didn't sleep well and didn't feel
very well. The weather outside was horrible. Hurricane type weather; very rainy
and windy, jut not a good day to do anything. I somehow made it to work on time
just to discover that 2 people were out and I would have extra work to do. I grumbled
and felt bad. I checked Facebook and saw something someone wrote that really
hurt me and my mood got much worse and so did my grumbling.
Finally lunchtime came and I thought that might make things
better... wrong. I was pulling into Burger King and had the right of way when a
mini-van decided to swerve in front of me and cut me off. I grumbled some more.
I had to follow behind the mini-van into the drive-thru, they apparently wanted
to mess with me and stopped a foot from the intercom. They just sat there and I
just sat there waiting. Ten minutes went by and they were still sitting there
so I decided to just pull out and leave. As soon as I began pulling out the
mini-van shot over and tried to cut me off again. By now I wasn't even angry, I
just wanted to leave. I was able to exit the Burger King without being killed
and my grumbling continued.
I
drove down Lovell Rd.
looking for somewhere else to buy lunch. The rain was much harder and the roads
were flooding. I decided to go to Arbys. I rolled down the window at the
intercom to order my food and the rain poured into my car and soaked me, I was
really grumbling and feeling sorry for myself. I reached into my billfold and
pulled out the cash I had. I noticed something written on the side of a dollar
bill: Jeremiah 29:11-13. I quickly
opened my YouVersion Bible app on my Blackberry to read that passage:
"11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward
you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an
expected end. 12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go
and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. 13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with
all your heart".... and
my grumbling stopped.
I
will never know who wrote that passage of Scripture on that dollar bill,
whoever it was, I thank the Lord for them. They will never know how much it
helped this grumbler.
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