Our Karen's Korner today is something that I wrote last week. I shared it last night at our church's What's for Supper? and when devotional booklet #5 comes into being, it will probably be in it:
October 8, 2003
This morning I decided to play a computer card game of "Hearts". It sure wasn’t my day!
The first hand I couldn’t get out of the lead. Because I had the Queen of Spades and hearts hadn’t been "broken", I had to lead the queen. Naturally, I took the trick – 13 points. My hearts weren’t big enough so that I could take them all. I got a lot of points.
The second hand I had really good cards. But my computer, card-playing partner to my right had quite a run of higher cards. She took them all. Now I had all kinds of points. Didn’t look like I could win the "lowest point" scoring contest. So I did when any good competitive player would do, I reached up and pushed cancel to start a new game. No sense of playing something I couldn’t win!
When I pushed the "X" button in the top right-hand corner, I thought, "This is what Jesus did when He came to live and die in our place to save us!" He looked at you and at me and said, "You are playing the game of life and the scoring points are totaling up and you aren’t going to win. If you believe me, trust me, love me, and give your live to me, we will push the "X" button of the life you have now and you can start over!"
And that is what He promises to each one of us. Only this time, He tells us to hang on to His Hand and to listen to His Voice. The difference this time: He promises that we WILL win. What a promise!
When we play the card game of life, we have two choices: play the hand we were dealt. Or ask God to deal us a new hand! Doesn’t seem like too tough a choice to me!!