For a week I had been praying that I would be walking in Love. I wanted to shine for Jesus and be His special servant!!! Well, be careful for what you pray!!!
I guess I just expected God to answer my prayers because I told Him too!!!..........I guess that's called presumption!
A friend of mine and me were planning a women's retreat and we were having a planning meeting. In the middle of the meeting, a woman came up and interrupted our meeting and told me that she needed to talk to me.I told her that we were in a meeting and it would be awhile. Well...., she waited five minutes and told me she needed to talk to me now!! I excused myself and moved to the side of the room and said NOT HERE!!! I need to talk to you privately!
We moved to a private room and she started to blast me and my son. She told me how awful he was, and how he started a fight with her (perfect) son.. well, I knew the Whole story of what had transpired because my son had been totally humiliated by her husband screaming at my son in front of all his friends. After a few minutes, I was getting hot and could feel my flesh rising up.. I actually wanted to slap her!
After a few minutes the thought occured to me...This is a test!!! It's what you were praying for! SOOO.........I let her go on and on and on berating me and my son until she was done. Since I knew the truth...the whole truth, I was able to share that from their perspective it appeared that my son had pushed her son down...what actually happened was that Daniel had rushed in to break up a fight and was in the middle and pushed two boys away from each other. there vision was blocked so they didn't see the WHOLE thing! I let them know that Daniel felt humiliated and that he deserved an apology!!! That did not happen, but I did talk about knowing the WHOLE story!
After this I went into the prayer room and the woman in charge said "let's just write our thoughts down". I wrote furiously for twenty minutes and the leader said"Laurie, I noticed you writing alot...would you like to share"? Well, I remembered that I was in church so I thought it best not to talk like that in church!!! I realized that I had been praying to walk and respond in love and I do believe that I was given a test.... This time I kept my big mouth shut and passed!
God takes our prayers seriously and has such humor, too!!!! Be careful for what you pray for.. God loves you enough to show you and me how He delights to answer, and how much we need Him!!! I guess that's why we swear on the bible in court and promise to tell the truth, the WHOLE truth and nothing but the truth!!!
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