Everywhere you look you see signs.
The sign in front of one church could be a little confusing.
That sign says, “Don’t let worry kill you. Let the church help.”
A sign on a plumber’s truck said, “We repair what your husband fixed.”
A sign in the waiting room of a veterinarian said: “Be back in five minutes. SIT! STAY!”Some door signs say either “push” or “pull.”
In a hospital in Minneapolis, there’s a sign on the door going into Labor and Delivery
that says: “PUSH! PUSH! PUSH!”Some signs are absolutely useless because they state the obvious.
In Tennessee, a highway sign says: “When this sign is under water, this road is impassable.”
I read about a sign on a fencepost somewhere in Texas that says:
“The farmer allows walkers to cross the field free, but the bull charges.”Many signs are often ignored.
Speed limit signs, no parking signs, and even stop signs may be ignored.
The one sign almost always noticed and followed is the “Out of order ” sign
Of course, we don’t like to see that sign.
Have you ever been dying of thirst and when you find a soft drink machine,
and there’s an “Out of Order” sign on it?
But the worst, of course, is when you’re on a trip and you need to take a restroom break,
but on the door of the restroom are those three terrible words: “Out of order.”
Sometimes our life becomes “Out of Order“.
Have you ever found your life to be so full of dysfunction and pain that you felt like
you should walk around with an “Out of Order: sign around your neck?
When things are out of order, frustration occurs.
We want our life to function.
When we do what’s right we expect life to work well for us.
But sometimes we do our best, and still hurt.
As a husband or wife, you tried to make your marriage work — and he or she walked out.
Out of order.
As a parent, you raised your children to know the Lord and to live right,
and yet they have made bad choices.
Out of order.
You worked hard at being a good employee – yet you got laid off.
Out of order.
You ate right, exercised faithfully, and took vitamins, but still you got that bad diagnosis.
What’s going on?
Don’t panic.
God tells us that sometimes we can do everything right and we’ll still suffer.
Then He tells us how to live when that happens.
“For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers:
We can’t understand why good people suffer, and bad people seem to be prospering.
Then we say: “It just isn’t fair!”
Life isn’t fair, but God is good……..all the time
In the Bonds of Calvary,
