Sunday, May 9, 2010

Show mommy how fast you can run.....

The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still. Exodus 14:14

We do "testimony time" in our church....Since Sunday was Mother's Day, we were encouraged to share a heartwarming story about our moms. Well, one man stood up....a man probably in his early 60's.....and he recalled a story from his childhood. One day he was outside sitting in the yard playing when his mother came out the back door. (Realize that he already set up this story by telling us that his mother liked to shoot guns.) Anyhow, as his mother came out the back door he noticed that she had a .22 caliber pistol in her hand, down by her side. He told us that she calmly looked him in the face and told him, "Now, show mommy how fast you can run." He relayed that at that very moment he remembered thinking to himself that he knew his mother loved him, but was wondering what he could have possibly done for his mother to shoot him. In any case, he said that he got up, and since he lived in the era of Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, he knew that he would have a better chance at staying alive if he ran in a zig-zag pattern. And so, he took off....zig-zagging back and forth. Then, he heard a shot.....stopped briefly to wonder if he had been shot.....luckily, she apparently missed.....so he kept on running. I'll skip to the end of the story....actually his mom had spotted a snake that had crawled ever so silently up behind him where he was sitting in the grass. So, his mom did what any wonderful gun-toting mom would do- she told her son to run and then proceeded to shoot the snake. Now that is a great story! Unlike the verse above, sometimes you do need to run. Remember that today, God is your protector, obey Him, even when you may not fully understand his commands!

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