It started off as a beautiful day. The weather was warm, the sun was bright, the ocean was crystal blue and when you looked off at the horizon you just weren't sure where the sky ended and the ocean began.
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Shane and I had gone to the beach with some friends and the peace that was that day was fabulous. Us girls were enjoying the sun while the fellas played in the water trying to catch fish with their bare hands. Why? I have not a clue! Must be a guy thing because Gabe does it as well! lol
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As the day quickly passed by lunch time brought in the clouds. As I watched, the wind began to pick up and within just a few minutes I made the statement that we needed to start gathering our stuff. Since the guys didn't think it was that big of a deal we all began to argue over what we needed to do. Leave the stuff and go in the room until the storm passed...take everything now and set it back up after the storm passed. It was back and forth...back and forth and then all of a sudden it happened! The wind started blowing sand this way and that way and it felt like needles were poking our skin. My friend and I started screaming and I guess we screamed so loud it knocked the umbrella over (heehee) and that thing took off flying down the beach. Our towels were whipping around like they were dancing, our cooler knocked over, our books and other beach items were being tossed around like we were in the midst of a tornado and you could barely open your eyes for the sand. We eventually all grabbed what our hands could hold and ran for it. By the time we got to the condo and rounded the corner we all looked like we had rolled around in the sand for hours.
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Once safe in our room we laughed about how crazy the four of us must have looked running to the condo and how we didn't even really have time to react. You know that happens in life sometimes. We see the storm coming but we are too busy arguing over what to do to actually be prepared to handle it. Before long one thing is flying through the air and before we can focus on it and catch it something else takes off.
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That very same thing happened to Job. It says in Job chapter 1 that a messenger came and began to tell him how the Sabeans had stolen his oxen and donkeys and killed his farmhands and before that messenger could finish another one showed up and began telling Job that a fire had destroyed all his sheep and shepherds and while that messenger was not yet finished a third one showed up to tell him that a mighty wind had collapsed his oldest son's home killing all of his children. Wow! Can you imagine the look on Job's face and he heard all of this? I can just see him looking from one messenger to the next, scratching his head trying to completely understand what was said. He never had time to react. The storms just kept hitting him over and over and over. He never saw it coming and he never had a chance to catch his breath before the next storm hit.
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I'm thinking about Job today. I'm thinking about myself and the way I have been acting. I don't know about you but sometimes I catch myself walking around all Miss Mary Christian and then I realize that I'm nothing more than a moron. Oh, maybe that's not a good word but you get my point. I need a little humility. I need my feet knocked out from under me so that I can find myself on my knees.
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After Job was able to shut his gaping mouth from hearing all this news he simply said "I came naked from my mother’s womb, and I will be naked when I leave. The Lord gave me what I had, and the Lord has taken it away. Praise the name of the Lord!” Job 1:21 (NLT). What are you gonna do when the messengers keep showing up at your house? What are you gonna do in the midst of a sand storm?
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