This morning when I woke up I had a scripture verse bouncing around in my head. It was from I Corinthians 13:13, "There are three things that remain - faith, hope and love - and the greatest of these is love." Now, it's not unusual for things to be bouncing around in my head; it's just that I couldn't get this verse out of my head. Normally when a Scripture verse continues to repeat itself in my head it usually means that God is trying to remind me something, or, at the very least, He is getting me ready for something that is coming my way.
Settling in for my morning time with God I felt the need to share my Bible verse with all of my friends on my favorite social network. Throughout the day seven of my social network pals indicated that they liked my scripture posting. Who knows? Maybe God beat me over the head with that verse this morning because He knew that I would post it and that one or seven of my pals needed to gain some kind of comfort from that verse today. I just love it when He uses me as an instrument of His Grace.
But the funny thing is that I'm not sure that's what God was intending because the sacred writ reminder didn't go away. Throughout the day, that verse kept finding its way back into my Kirby consciousness. As time went on, I thought that maybe God placed that verse in my Kirby cranium, not because somebody else needed it but because I needed to be reminded of its truth 5,000 times before noon. But why, Lord? Why do I need to be reminded of the greatest gift of all?
As I was driving home to The Kirbarosa, after a long day of being a superhero, the Corinthian commonition continued to resonate in my brain. Now, in it's eleventh hour of perpetual repetition, I approached a traffic light that was shining it's big red light right at my truck. Pulling up to the light, I stopped and pondered the scripture pontification in my head, "There are three things that remain - faith, hope and love - and the greatest of these is love." As my light changed from red to green, I waited just a few seconds as God's love message settled into my heart. Before accelerating into the intersection I took one final look to my left just in time to see a huge fuel tanker come barreling through the intersection in total disregard of the red light pointing his way. Had I moved into the intersection a few seconds earlier I would have been killed.
I've had a few hours to reflect on my special message from God today. Thankfully, I wasn't too busy to hear Him speaking to me today, however, based on how many times that verse played over in my head, I get the sense that maybe, just maybe, He had a little trouble getting my attention. When He finally did get my attention I am glad that I waited to let the message make its way into my heart.
Who knows? Maybe the forces of darkness put out a hit on old Brother Bill today but my God is greater. Maybe God was just reminding me that even though the world seems to have gone mad, He is still in control. Either way, I know, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that there are three things that remain - faith, hope and love - and the greatest of these is love.
Be well.
Bill
