Moving On! As we Should!
Published on Facebook, March 6, 2011
By Bud Powell
But It Drives Me Crazy!!
Jesus said that sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof, and we should not borrow trouble from the future. But neither
should we carry it over from the past. At some point we will begin to
look ridiculous. I have always had temptations that way, for my
Kentucky forbears seemed to think that carrying grudges was a mark of character
and backbone.
I read
a story years ago that went something like this.
He was
a mild little fellow, standing at the street corner, waithing for the bus. His
hat was neatly brushed and his briefcase was in his hand. It had begun to
rain just a little, but he was patient, waiting for the bus to take him to his
office down town. There were others at the stop, some just sitting on
park benches, idlers, for the stop was next to a small city park.
Finally
the bus arrived. Our friend moved toward the bus, when a big, burly
fellow pushed ahead of him, knocking him to the ground, stepping on his hat,
and causing his briefcase to fall to the ground, burst open and scatter his
papers around in the rain. People stepped up to help him and the
papers were soon restored to his briefcase and his hat to his head, but the bus
had gone.
"Did
you see what that bully did?" he said to everyone around. When new
people came to wait for the next bus, he told them all about how badly he had
been treated, and they commiserated with him. The others returned to
their park benches, but they had great sympathy for him and told others about
the bully and what a rat he was.
But
our friend was so busy telling his tale of woe to the bystanders that the next
bus came and went without him noticing it. He basked in the sympathy he
got and continued to tell his story. But new people that came to
the stop didn't seem nearly as much interested, and the park denizons went back
to their papers or their reveries.
He
also missed the next bus, and the one after that. But by this time, no
one cared a bit about his troubles. A little old lady who "took her
sun" every morning in the park and was witness to the whole thing
remarked, "You better go to work and forget about this. There's
nothing to do about it anyway."
Jesus
said [Lu 17:1] "It is impossible but that offenses will come: but woe
[unto him], through whom they come!" There are many reasons why God
has chosen to allow bad things to happen to us, and He will bring woe upon
those who do the offenses--but we can learn from them, learn to trust God for
our education and training, and move on the work that God has given us to do.
