Look on the Other Side of that Cloud

   I woke up this morning with a feeling of "I goofed", and as I read the Gospel reading for today, whose words in John 1 seemed to be for me:

 "Philip said to him, “Come and see.”

   God seemed to say, "yesterday you did not look at the whole picture. You spoke out of conviction, but there was more. You need to look farther."

  As I walked and thought and looked at the world around me, one thing caught my eye.

   I looked to the east and saw the dark clouds on the horizon, but behind them the sun was rising and the sky was a beautiful shade of blue. As I got my eyes off the low clouds and looked higher, it looked like a more positive beginning to this new day.

   Thoughts of other times and other skies came to my mind. Times when Mayre and I were flying somewhere. The skies above us, as we waited to take off, might have been dark and cloudy, but when we broke above those low lying clouds, the sky was bright, and those same clouds shone with a great light, just because we were looking at them from the other side.

   So, as I considered what I had written yesterday. I knew my personal preferences had come through again. The message from our pastor had been about the glory of God. One of his main points was that this whole life was not about me it was about Him, and there I was writing about "me".

   I was invited by the Scripture verse to "come and see". There was much more to be gotten out of that service than my perceived idea that it could have been better.

   People were there..

   People heard The Word preached with power..

   The were opportunities for lives to be forever changed..

   I don't want my negative reaction to some music take away the more important positives. After all it is my preferences that rose to the top, and as the pastor said "it is not about me".

 "Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”

   I need to be a Phillip and not a Nathanael.