I don’t know who gets up first in your house, in our house it’s usually me.
On this particular morning I was up around the usual time and downstairs having breakfast when I heard a strange noise. I went back upstairs to discover the heavy framed picture that hangs above our bed had just fallen.
It’s been hanging there for years but this morning the string snapped and down it came to land on the pillows just inches from my sleeping wife’s head.
Now some might shrug it off or make a joke and I certainly don’t like to be morbid but something like that does make you pause and think.
What if?
Just a few inches different could have made a huge difference between a good day and a dreadful one, between health and wellbeing and serious injury, perhaps even between life or death.
I have friends who would put such things down to luck but as a Christian I don’t really believe in coincidence. I believe in an almighty God Who is somehow in charge of everything that happens. Admittedly such faith creates problems at times, for I struggle naturally to understand or accept tragic, evil or painful events, but more often it brings comfort.
My Bible reading that morning was from Ps 71 in which the writer asks help from God his ‘help and deliverer’. Interesting ‘coincidence’!
I trust in a God Who looks after us, Who frequently protects from harm, Who provides in need, Who comes to our rescue. Another Psalm says He appoints angels to watch over us! Jesus taught our heavenly Father knows the hair on our heads and sees the sparrow fall, in other words He cares about us in detail. That has been my experience throughout my life so far, not least on this occasion.
My late Mum used to quote an old proverb, ‘You’ll not go before your time.’
We’re still here, so that day the picture fell obviously wasn’t our ‘time’ to depart this life. We’ve been given to live here and love and enjoy another day.
So let’s not take it for granted but be thankful!
Thank God for His grace and mercy and kindness in giving His Son to deliver us and many more blessings besides. And let’s try to live today as would please Him and be of benefit to those around us.
On this particular morning I was up around the usual time and downstairs having breakfast when I heard a strange noise. I went back upstairs to discover the heavy framed picture that hangs above our bed had just fallen.
It’s been hanging there for years but this morning the string snapped and down it came to land on the pillows just inches from my sleeping wife’s head.
Now some might shrug it off or make a joke and I certainly don’t like to be morbid but something like that does make you pause and think.
What if?
Just a few inches different could have made a huge difference between a good day and a dreadful one, between health and wellbeing and serious injury, perhaps even between life or death.
I have friends who would put such things down to luck but as a Christian I don’t really believe in coincidence. I believe in an almighty God Who is somehow in charge of everything that happens. Admittedly such faith creates problems at times, for I struggle naturally to understand or accept tragic, evil or painful events, but more often it brings comfort.
My Bible reading that morning was from Ps 71 in which the writer asks help from God his ‘help and deliverer’. Interesting ‘coincidence’!
I trust in a God Who looks after us, Who frequently protects from harm, Who provides in need, Who comes to our rescue. Another Psalm says He appoints angels to watch over us! Jesus taught our heavenly Father knows the hair on our heads and sees the sparrow fall, in other words He cares about us in detail. That has been my experience throughout my life so far, not least on this occasion.
My late Mum used to quote an old proverb, ‘You’ll not go before your time.’
We’re still here, so that day the picture fell obviously wasn’t our ‘time’ to depart this life. We’ve been given to live here and love and enjoy another day.
So let’s not take it for granted but be thankful!
Thank God for His grace and mercy and kindness in giving His Son to deliver us and many more blessings besides. And let’s try to live today as would please Him and be of benefit to those around us.
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