What’s Really the Problem With Your Life?

Once at home I started pulling everything from the fridge to make quesadillas.  Then I opened up the plastic rotisserie chicken container and grabbed a knife to cut into the chicken.

The chicken was deformed.  I’m not kidding.  I kept trying to cut at it, but it was like there were no chicken breasts, only strange dark meet and bones where there shouldn’t be bones.  Weirdest thing I’ve ever seen –I had to throw the whole thing away.

A few days later I was back in the supermarket deli and said, I thought maybe I should tell you that last week I bought a deformed chicken from your deli.  Had to throw the whole thing away.

She cocked her head sideways and slowly said to me, Was it upside down?

Mmmmhmm.

They were training some new help in the deli.  Evidently, the new help could not tell if a chicken was right side up either.

My grandma used to buy chickens from a farm, pluck them, and cut them up herself.  I think she might be disappointed in her granddaughter’s lack of knowledge about poultry.

Then this simple truth came to mind.  Things aren’t always as they appear.  There was nothing wrong with the chicken –only how I was looking at it.  The same is true with the sober difficulties of life.  We see them from one perspective, but God offers another.  If only someone had said to me, Hey, turn the chicken over! everything would have been different.

That’s what the Bible does for us.  We open it, and God says, Hey, look at money like this.  Look at relationships like this.  Look at your physical health like this.  Look at success like this.  Look at joy like this.  He can turn upside-down things right-side-up.

“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”  Isaiah 55:9

What do you think God sees in your current situation?