Adventures Seen in 3s—What They Can Reveal About Obedience to God
They say things come in groups of three. Yes, They say that. Well, maybe some do join Me in saying these words.
3s—People who are learning they are pregnant.
3s—People who have two close friends and not together, they comprise a group of three.
3s—If unexpected events were a number, then three would be the number emblazoned upon their t-shirts.
Lately….I have experienced a season of three.
On this side, looking backward, I have realized a biblical truth discovered within these three events—my adventures.
Adventure #1.
One day (not so long ago) I locked my vehicle and then I pulled shut my office door and headed to lunch. After a time of great conversation, suddenly I discovered my keys remained tucked securely inside my locked office. After a season of trying various keys that supposedly contained ALL the keys to the building, finally, one key turned the handle, opening the door.
Adventure #2.
One day (not so long ago but soon after the first loss) I had enjoyed a day of teaching, eaten a good lunch, taken a brisk walk across campus, and after stepping inside the building, I slid my prescription sunglasses on my shirt, a pattern of mine from like—forever.
Stopping by the main floor restroom led me to the second adventure.
What occurred took me by surprise for sure.
After doing my business, I leaned over to flush the toilet only to hear and only to see a sight I never wished to hear and see—my prescription sunglasses twirling down the toilet drain.
Adventure #3.
One day (not so long ago—like just this past Thursday night) I set my stovetop on fire! That’s right.
As I prepared to fix a dessert for my dinner guests, I turned on what “I thought” was the Right burner, only to discover the burner turning a bright red was the WRONG burner.
Yes, I set afire the basket of dinner rolls warming on that same back burner—the burner I haphazardly turned on, the one I did not intend.
To my dismay, my “warming basket of dinner rolls” was now ablaze there on the back of my stovetop. My sister’s, “Oh my,” caught my attention, giving me the split-second decision I needed to grab the basket— placing the blazing basket into the water-filled sink.
One key turned the handle—Opening the Door.
Prescription Sunglasses— Twirling Down the Toilet Drain.
The ablaze dinner-roll basket—Grabbing and Placing into the Water-Filled Kitchen Sink.
Threes.
Do all adventures come in threes?
Maybe. Yet Clearly….God now has my attention.
Clearly….There is something for me to learn in these progressing adventures.
Lost Keys—Easily Replaced.
Lost Prescription Glasses—Not So Easily Replaced.
Lost Kitchen & Maybe Home—Definitely NOT So Easily Replaced.
Thank you God for giving me these memories today as I read Your Holy Word.
Thank You God for revealing to me a biblical truth to be seen in these progressively worse events.
Thank You God for unlocked doors, for new prescription sunglasses, & for a sister’s, “Oh my,” and for saving my home from a raging fire.
Thank You God for taking on a human-form to come to earth and dwell among us. God Spoke.
Thank you God for the sacrifice of Your Son Jesus, who brought salvation to the world. God Came.
Thank You God for sending Your Holy Spirit to be individually with us as we live-out our duration of days. God’s Holy Spirit Dwells.
Yes, Thank—You—God for Your most Holy Trinity.
Thank—You—God !!!
Yes, thank—You—God, for Your Love, for Your Truth, and for Your Sweet Spirit !!!
We live a breath, a vapor of days, and as we do, we are given—One Life & One Eternal Decision to make.
Do not believe me but always read and believe God’s most Holy Word.
“For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven,
inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked.
For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life.
Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge.
Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord—for we walk by faith, not by sight—we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
Therefore we also have our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. . . .“
“For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that One died for all, therefore all died;
And He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.”
(2 Corinthians 5: 1-10 & 14-15)
God is leading us to do His will.
Maybe we are unsure.
Maybe we are afraid.
Maybe it just doesn’t make sense.
Do It Anyway!
We can defeat fear, anxiety, the devil’s lies, and We Can Enjoy an Exciting & Adventurous Life with God.
Lost Keys.
Lost Glasses.
Lost Homes.
If God is leading us to something, it does NOT matter if how we feel; it matters whether we obey!
When God leads, He Goes before Us, He Surrounds Us, & He Comes Up Close Behind Us. Just ask the children of Israel.
When God says, “Move,” let us MOVE, even if we have to MOVE Unsure.
When God says, “Move,” let us MOVE by Faith and NOT by sight.
When God says, “Move,” let us MOVE in His confidence and courage, knowing with assurance that He is with us, He will never leave us, & He will bring us home to heaven when our days are finished.
Therefore, when God says, “Move,” let us obediently MOVE!!!