WILL I EVER LEARN?

Sometimes it seems I'm the slowest person on earth to learn spiritual lessons! I don't suppose you can identify with that, now, can you!

Anyhow, day before yesterday I had a routine appointment scheduled with my doctor for 1:40 in the afternoon. Early that morning, before I even had time for breakfast, I got a phone call from the doctor's office asking if I could come in at 1:00 pm instead of 1:40. Fine -- I had no problem with that.

If only the secretary would have stopped with the change in time, I would have been OK and thought nothing about it. But instead, she added, "That way the doctor can spend more time with you! More time??? Of course, I immediately thought the worst and figured the doctor had found something dreadfully, dreadfully wrong from my recent blood tests! I panicked!

I asked the Lord to help me face whatever was going to happen and right away came the Scripture "What time I am afraid, I will trust in you." I can't even give you the reference without looking it up. But do you think I let that verse calm my troubled spirit? Not a bit! I hung on to my panic for dear life! My husband prayed for me; later, when I saw the pastor, she, too, prayed with me. But I was still a basket case!

When 1:00 o'clock finally rolled around and I told the doctor how upset I had been all day, she replied, "I didn't know anything about the phone call!" What a relief to know nothing was wrong!

I'd like to think I've learned my lesson, and that the next time something like that happens, I'll be able to put the situation in the Lord's hands and trust Him to see me through! But, knowing me -- well, as I said, I'm so slow in learning spiritual lessons!

Hope you can do better, even if it does put me to shame!

Preacher's Kid