Often times we will describe a person that is a victim of a tragedy as being in the wrong place at the wrong time. In the tragedy at Virginia Tech, the president used that phrase in describing the innocent students that were gunned down by a crazed gunman. When you think about it, that is not a good description. Those kids were exactly where they should have been, in class learning when it was in session. It was the gunman that was in the wrong. Being in the right place and doing the right thing doesn’t always mean good things will happen. The right place might be uncomfortable and tiresome. The right time may bring you ridicule and scorn. The rightness of your action may not be in the results but in action. A knocked door that is slammed in your face, a Bible study offered but not accepted, a lesson prepared but the class sleeps in, are examples of times when we are doing what is right but the results may be less than what we hoped for. That doesn’t mean we should quit doing those things. Wrong actions by another should not make us change our right behavior. As Jesus responded when he was questioned about being in the wrong place at the wrong time, we should also answer, “Did you not know that I must be about My Father's business?''
Ok, I know you have seen the image. A lion tamer enters in the cage of the beast and forces it to obey his commands using a whip, a gun and a chair. Now you can see how the whip and gun could come in handy but you might be wondering why a chair would intimidate an animal as powerful as a lion? Clyde Beatty taming a lion with a chair It's not that the lion is afraid of the chair -- it's that the lion is confused by the chair. Cats are single-minded, and the points of the chair's four legs bobbing around confuse the lion enough that it loses its train of thought. Casually put, the chair distracts the lion from wanting to claw the lion tamer's face off. The powerful creature could destroy the chair in moment’s notice but instead it is distracted into submission. It’s not too much different than how Satan controls us today. By the power of God we could overcome anything that he would use to subdue us. We can overcome the evil one (1 st John 2:13-14). ...
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