Who Is It You Rely On?

My weekend was supposed to be one spent at home getting things done this weekend and relaxing. I have to say it was anything but that. Friday after I left work I went to pick my kids up and we went to best buy and I bought a new tv and a new dvd player for my bedroom. Everything was normal about Friday nite til I turned out the light and went to bed. I saw over on the wall a long huge bug of some kind that looked like it had several legs and antennas on it and it was creepy looking. I killed it and went to sleep. Saturday morning I got up and cleaned a little bit and then met my sister at tumbleweed and enjoyed a nice lunch. In the middle of a noisy restaurant it is hard to hear my youngest daughter because she doesn't speak very loud most of the time. Well in the middle of us eating all you heard was this loud burp coming from this skinny quiet girl and she laughed so hard she couldn't eat...she gets that from her mammaw. After that we went to Kroger so Natalie could buy some tickets to WWE wrestling for her, my nephews, and my brother in law to go in July. Then it was off to my sisters church to finish some more of the VBS stuff. Well I had to redraw two of the characters because they were beyond me fixing and my sister is very particular how she does things for VBS. She says go big or don't go and do it with excellence. I happen to agree with her on that as well. We were up there til later than I had expected to and when I got home I layed in the bed watching tv and fell asleep. Sunday morning I woke up to Natalie saying mom are we going to church this morning? I said yes what time is it she said 10:20am. I was like are you kidding me why didn't you wake me up when you got up. The night before I had forgotten to set my alarm and missed church yesterday morning. I do not like missing church. Well since we missed church we decided to go check out a new store up in St. Matthews my mother told us about and we bought a few things and we were headed home on the watterson expressway. Everything was fine til after we passed the wesport road exit. I heard a loud POP and then thump thump thump thump thump thump....my tire had blown and I was in the middle lane of the expressway and pulled off to the side on the off ramp to Breckenridge lane. Well I thought this is not biggie I have changed a tire before. So I jacked the car up took all the lug nuts off and started to pull the tire off when all of a sudden the jack fell down. So I had Natalie help me jack it up again and we tried to pull it off again and it fell again. We did this 3 times until I finally said OK I need to call for some help. Luckily my brother in law was at my parents house not too far from where we were at. I told him where I was and which way to go to get there but he took a different way which caused us to wait 25 minutes til he turned and went the way i told him. While we were waiting I had the air on in the car and the kids were in the back seat keeping cool and i was in the front and all of a sudden i hear Natalie say to Olivia...."Hold still and don't move". Then all you hear is SMACK across Olivia's head and she said ouch what did you do that for. It was a big spider crawling on her head. Natalie was like well if i had told you what i was doing you would have moved then the spider would have crawled on all of us and we couldn't have killed it. Well they finally get to us and we get the spare on and we first go to pepboys to see about getting tires but it was going to be over an hour before they could even look at it. My dad said just come to my house and I will put a tire from my Taurus on to yours til you can get tires tomorrow. So we went there and spend several hours with my family before coming home last nite. Then I get up this morning and my dad calls me and says meet me up at Sam's Club and we will get some tires put on the car. We were there for maybe an hour and then I went to target and came home. Yes it sounds like a typical weekend for most people when unexpected things happen, but god shows me things thru some of the oddest situations. Just like we have our mind set that things we want to do have to be certain way and its not always what god wants us to do. Just like I had in mind what I thought my weekend was going to be like and it changed on me. Just like that bug crawling on my wall. Most people wouldn't have noticed it on the wall in the dark and would have went to sleep. God wants us to be watchful for the enemy trying to creep up on us not to be sleeping. Just like my daughter burping loud in the middle of a restaurant and laughing so hard she couldn't contain it. That's how god wants us to be joyful to the point that we cannot contain ourselves so that people stop to look and say what is it about them that makes them glow with such joy. He wants people to see the joy in us. Just like I had to redraw the two characters for VBS sometimes god has to help us thru our mistakes that we make and to learn from it. Sometimes that means we have to go back and redo some things to make it right. Then there are the times that unexpected things occur that we have not control over. Just like when my tire blew and I tried to fix it myself we try to do things ourselves without asking god for help. We need to know when to let god step in and take over instead of trying to do things ourselves because there are things that only our father can take care of it just like i had to call my dad for help. We sometimes try to take a different route than what is telling us to go and we get off the path and find ourselves lost. Just like when my brother in law took a different way to get to where i was at. We need to learn to listen to the instructions we are given and not try to think we know best. That prideful spirit is what gets us into trouble thinking that we know more than he does. Just like when Natalie hit her sister in the side of the head to kill the spider and didn't tell her why to sit still is just like when god is telling us to wait without telling us what we are waiting for. We have times in our lives where god doesn't always tell us what hes doing and why because we would just mess things up by doing it our way instead of his. In the end of it all I asked my daddy for help and he was there for me steering me in the right direction. That is how it should be with us and god. We should always go to him for help and quit letting pride get in the way because we think we can handle something on our own. God knows whats best for us and he has a plan and purpose for us all. Don't let your sinful selfish pride get in the way of the destiny god has for your life. He has great things in store for you and it may not always be easy along the way, but as long as we rely on him and ask him for wisdom, patience, and understanding we will endure through it all.