Overcoming Murphy's Law

I have a great paraphrase translation for this one scripture currently. “Lord, thank you that all this crap in life I go through is working a far more exceeding weight of glory! “ I like my own translation. It’s so great to be a positive person even when the chips are down. Rather than have a “persecution” complex.

For our present troubles are small and won't last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! 2 Cor. 4:17

Also, for anyone who criticizes, fault finds and judges me I like my paraphrase, “God bless their ignorant hearts."  It’s very similar to “Father forgive them they know not what they are doing.”

I was watching this Christian movie and I was just thinking about that situation where they dragged the woman taken in adultery and Jesus said “He that is without sin cast the first stone.”  I’ve had several stones thrown at me and usually the person who throws the stone is guilty of the same thing.

It’s rather bazaar but a co-worker and I were talking about how someone criticized our department at work for so much turnover of faculty and staff and what is very strange is that they just had a whole big turnover of staff in their department!  It’s just weird how it comes back.   Jesus warned about not being “hypocrites” when we are judging. But what I’ve seen is the very thing someone judges others for happens to them!   

I heard a good sermon on this that when we actually remove the plank there is a hole in our heart (or compassion) so we can see clearly to have compassion to get the speck out of another person’s eye.

You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.  Mathew 7:5

The first way to overcome Murphy's Law is not to believe for things to go wrong.  I went to this women's group and this woman said that every time she got pregnant her husband lost his job.  Go stand in the unemployment land.  You just had faith for it to happen.

Things can go wrong sometimes on their own, but we don't need to do any negative believing or definitely not saying it out of our mouth either.   Fear is actually having faith for the wrong thing.

My daughter Paula gave me some wise advise in Hawaii.   She was trying to talk me into going into a shark tank.  Right before we were going to that adventure I caught the rental car bumper on a cement barrier and ripped off the front bumper.  My insurance deductible is $500.   My daughter said, "Mom, sh.t happens, you got to move on.  We are in a paradise... Hawaii.  Don't focus on the bad junk that happens in life."

Don't focus on a divorce or a failure in life.

We can get a "persecution" complex.  Some people do develop the "Why me" thing and then they think God is punishing them.  That happened to my in-laws when they lost two adult children (one my husband).  Instead of seeing all the joy that their two children brought them for many years they focused on the tragedy of their loss.

If I would have taken that as a bad sign or omen I would have missed all that fun in the shark tank......LOL...we don't want to miss out on what life has to offer...just around the corner.

Jesus was born and the angels proclaimed his birth and then all the children two years old and under were killed.  Same thing happened before the deliverer Moses --all the boy babies were drowned so Moses mother hid him.  Right before a great victory is about to happen many times something bad happens or sometimes after a great victory happens something goes wrong.

It's an entity that tries to divert our attention to focus on the negative in life rather than the positive.  The children of Israel came out of the Red Sea and Egypt in a mighty way, but God also did many miracles in the wilderness.  The Children of Israel did not appreciate the miracles in the wilderness (not one feeble among them, they were fed with manna and quails) and they never made it into the promise land except Joshua and Caleb who believed they could take the promise land, because of their being negative (their unbelief)

For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. Hebrews 4:2

And to whom swore he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? Hebrews 3:18