A Modern Day Parable

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Have you heard the modern day parable about the man who prayed to be rescued from the rising flood waters in his town? He earnestly asked God to save him. Soon after, a neighbor showed up in a canoe and offered him a ride but the man declined saying that God would rescue him. The waters kept rising. The man moved up to his balcony and continued to pray for God to save him when a man with a motorboat showed up. Still the man refused to get on board. Just as the water was rising near roof level and the man was standing at the highest point of his house a helicopter appeared, dropped a rope ladder down and urged the man to climb onto the rope so they could take him to safety. The man refused...and drowned.

The story goes on to say that when the man got to heaven and asked God why He didn't save him when he prayed to be rescued, God replied to the man - I sent you two boats and a helicopter! While that particular story may have been crafted as a joke, a variation of that story could happen in our own lives. We pray and ask God to rescue us from a situation...and while we are praying...we anticipate HOW God is going to do it. And we totally miss His answer to our prayer! We ask God to show us something and then we overlook or ignore the signs we asked Him to reveal to us.

The Lord said in Isaiah 43:19, "Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert."  We weren't looking for a way through the wilderness or the desert. We were hoping for a nicely paved expressway through the city to get us from point A to point B in a straight line! Here's something I've learned about God's ways. We pray for answers based on what's most comfortable for us. God knows the way that will develop our character. He hears our prayers and He answers them...just not always the way we expect. Don't miss today...what God is sending your way. If we are busy watching the flood waters rise, we will miss His way of escape.

Read more devotions written by Denise Harper at Treasured Inside
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