Seems there was
a certain married couple attending a sporting event together. The husband
was known for getting embarrassingly involved in the game. You know the
type. He hollered at the officials and cheered madly. In response the wife
would often elbow him in the ribs.
At one game, while she was talking to someone else, a man sat
down between her and her husband. On the next play the husband shouted something
the wife didn't like and she jabbed with her elbow, only to knock the wind
out of the stranger!
Misplaced blame or credit can be a problem. When things don't
go the way we think they ought to, we sometimes blame God. Job (the patient
fellow) in the Bible, handled all the attacks thrown at him by the devil
until he started to mistakenly believe that God was sending unfair treatment
his way. He started elbowing at God!
The fact is, God allows trials and "causes all things to work
together for good..." (Rom. 8:28), He
never sends us bad things. The opposite is true. "Every good thing bestowed
and every perfect gift is from
above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation,
or shifting shadow." (James 1:17).
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