Something Is Just Not Right

Ever have a day where you feel as if you are walking with two left feet?
A day when things that should take this long..take T-H-I-S long!

I don’t know why days like that surprise us.
That is just the way it is down here…sometimes.

I begin teaching a women’s Bible study in a few weeks.
I stopped to get posters laminated, so they can be hung around church.
I do this for every new Bible study session.
Usually it only takes a few minutes.

Today the laminating machine was not working properly.
Each poster had to go through the machine three times before it laminated properly.
I was so grateful to the girl behind the counter…for her sweet countenance.

At the next stop, the register tape needed to be changed…just as I got there.
Coming home, at a major intersection, the traffic light was stuck at red…in my direction.
On the small, winding roads near my home…a car was going very slow, with its flashers on.
We all had to pass it…when we could…but with many curves and bends…it was difficult.

Something is just not right.

A precious little two-year-old girl has a rare form of cancer.
A newly married couple miscarry their first baby.
A daughter is tragically killed in a car accident.
Parents die seven months apart.

Something is just not right.

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. (Romans 8:18,19)

Sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us!
I want to yell Hallelujah!

Once…things were very right.
The man and the woman were created…placed in the garden…and they walked with God.

Satan…the accuser…the tempter…caused the woman to doubt what God said.
God’s word and God’s promises were clouded by Satan’s morsel of doubt.
Doubt strategically inserted into all that was right.

Instantaneously, sinned turned the very right…into wrong.
Sin turned walking with God into separation from God.
Sin turned wholeness into brokenness.

God is able!
God can do the impossible!
God restores…makes new…redeems.

At that very moment, all that had been right, slid down the slippery slope of sin.
God had a redemptive plan.
NOT an alternative!
A perfect PLAN!

Protoevangelium…the first Gospel…preached in the third chapter of Genesis.

So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers;
He will crush your head and you will strike His heel. (Genesis 3:14,15)

The woman’s offspring would one day be Jesus.
The Savior who would die on the cross for our sins.
He would be buried and rise again, three days later.

Satan hates God.
Since he can’t destroy God, he tries desperately to destroy God’s children.

Satan thought he was victorious when Jesus was nailed to the cross.
What God said in Genesis came true.
Jesus suffered terribly on that cross…but Satan was only able to bruise Jesus’ heel.

When Jesus rose from the dead, He defeated sin, death, and Satan.
Jesus’ resurrection crushed Satan’s head.
It was a fatal blow to our enemy.

God has set eternity in the hearts of men, (Ecclesiastes 3:11)
We know, deep down inside, the way it was meant to be.
We know that something is just not right.

We feel like strangers here.
We feel like outcasts here.
We feel we don’t belong here.

We don’t!

And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had the opportunity to return. Instead they were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them. (Hebrews 11:13-16)

It is right that we feel like strangers and aliens…difficult as that may be at times.
Feeling like we have two left feet means we are not totally comfortable here.
We’re not meant to be!

We are meant for another place.
The Something Right place.
Everything here will always feel like something is just not right.
Rejoice in that!

God is preparing a city…a Something Right city.
The city where He will dwell.
We will walk with Him, once again.
This time with two Right feet!