What God can do
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by John Fischer I just spent the weekend with an old friend. Packed a small bag, got on a plane Friday afternoon, and flew 500 miles to see him. What made this unusual was, I hadn’t seen him or had contact with him for 18 years. He has been divorced for that long, and prior to that, he and his wife were our best friends. In our estimation, he was the bad guy, and we stayed in touch with his former wife, but lost touch with him. Should we be surprised that God has been working with him for the last 18 years? We abandoned him, but God didn’t. I sat in amazement as this man spoke wisdom into my life this weekend.
Here’s what I took away from this, minus the very personal help I received from him since, even after all these years, he knows me so well: 1) There was hardly any talk of what happened in the past. We did not pick up where we left off; we picked up where we are now. 2) I received the benefit of all he has learned in the last 18 years, much of it coming the hard way. I was deeply humbled by this, because in many ways, I found that he had passed me up in his own development, and I was still making many of the same mistakes I made 18 years ago. Where else can you get that kind of perspective than from a friend? 3) There was no resentment for what we lost, just appreciation for what we got back. 4) God is the amazing architect of our lives and knows what He is doing with us even when we don’t.
Bottom line: I was taught, encouraged and even rebuked by someone I had written off and forgotten. It was as if I left him behind, and while imagining him still back there somewhere, he had taken another road and passed me by. Now it is my joy to catch up with him again. Never underestimate what God can do with a life
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