God Has Power
One story of mine that came into my mind recently was the story of a time when I was told that I was gonna go to jail. It was a very frightening experience for me. It was also the kind of experience when I felt like things couldn’t get any better. The story itself might not relate to people directly, but those are definitely feelings that everyone gets sometimes.
There was a time when I got a jury duty form, and so I looked to see my availability when filling the form out. There were no plans put in the calendar, so I marked down that I would be available to go. I later found out that my family had already bought me tickets to go to Hawaii with them. When deciding if I should stay home by myself for multiple weeks in case I get asked to do jury duty or going to Hawaii with my family, I chose to go to Hawaii with my family. I had gotten multiple jury duty forms in the past but was never called to help out, so I felt like there was a pretty good chance that I wouldn’t be asked to help out. That trip to Hawaii turned out to be the only time that I HAVE been called to help out. I knew that I needed to call the courthouse and talk to them about the mistake that was made and how it would be impossible for me to come the very next morning due to being in Hawaii (and airlines being full) in order to get out of needing to go. They just wouldn’t let me go though. The only thing that they would keep saying to me was, “If you don’t come, you’re going to jail”. They just wouldn’t accept any excuse. I was getting even more freaked out as time went on. When it came to the night before I was expected to go to the jury selection, I ended up having one of my seizures. My parents called the courthouse, and the courthouse thankfully felt like I finally had an excuse to not come.
As soon as my parents told me that I was excused from going, I felt both grateful and crazy. A portion of me felt crazy because it had come into my mind that God has control over everything. I should’ve reminded myself that God had/has the power to find a way for things to go His way. I personally believe that God had planned it out for me to have that seizure at such a perfect time for it to happen. The chance of that being a coincidence is pretty low.
I’m bringing up this story because I want to make sure people in mind what I was reminded of after that story. If God desire for something to go a certain way, He is able to make it happen. Even if it seems like there is no humanly possible way for that to happen. That doesn’t mean that life will always go how we want it to. It does mean though that we have no need to be frightened by plans.
Hard things in life won’t happen unless God allows it. If God won’t allow something to happen in your life, you can know for sure that God will avoid it from happening. If God will allow something to happen in your life, it’s because He has a great reason to allow it. Whichever way things may go for you, God has a great plan in mind and you can know that He has the power to make His plans happen.