A Christian
man lived in a town not that far away.
One
day he heard a report on the radio warning everyone in the town to leave
their houses right away due to the fact that a flood was coming.
The guy
told himself that he wasn’t going to leave because he was a praying man and God
wasn’t going to let him die.
So, he
stayed in the house, and the flood waters came.
A while
later a officer in a rowboat was looking for people who hadn’t evacuated and
found the Christian man.
The officer
told the man to come into the boat so he could take the man to safety.
The
Christian man said that he was a praying man and God wasn’t going to let him
die, so he refused the officer's help and the officer went in search of
others.
Later a helicopter
was flying overhead and saw the Christian man.
The person
in the helicopter yelled down to the Christian man that he would help him
evacuate the area.
The
Christian man refused, saying that he was a praying man and that God wasn’t
going to let him die.
So the
people in the helicopter went on to search for others.
And the
flood waters continued to rush in, and eventually the Christian man died.
So as the
Christian man reached the pearly gates and demanded an audience with God.
When they met,
the Christian man talked to God. He told
Him that he was a praying man and always did what he could for
others.
If he was
this way, then why did God let him die.
God replied
to the Christian man: "What do you want from me? I put out a
radio report, I sent an officer in a row boat, and I sent a helicopter to help
you.”
So what is
the moral to this story? Often we pray for things and God answers our
prayers, and we don’t even realize what He has done because it wasn’t
answered exactly the way we thought it would be answered. The man
obviously expected God to just spare him and his house from the incoming flood
waters. Instead of stopping the water God instead sent him a warning
about the flood and two rescuers. All of those were ignored by the man
because that wasn’t what he wanted.
How often
are we like the Christian man in the story? I know that there have been
many times in my life that I’ve expected God to answer a prayer one way, only
to see it answered another. I think it’s time that we start to pray and
expect an answer from God, but know that the answer we will get might not be
what we were expecting. I hope you remember this story as you pray, and
don’t be like the Christian man. Accept His answers to that prayer,
however they come.
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