W6 D7 God Is In The Details

A career woman who scrimped and saved her wholeworking life, made enough money to take a vacation. She took a passage on an ocean liner and would have gone round the world but off Java straits she fell overboard. Unnoticed and helpless.
She could not swim but having found a dinghy she safely made to it and clung for life. After a harrowing night and day she made to an island. The whole night on a desolate beach she went on griping how miserable her life was. She cursed her bad luck and all the more because she had walked all her life straight and narrow path, and she was a committed Christian who never missed a Sunday service. Of course she remembered how her rival of her schooldays, who was more beautiful and had all the luck to get boys, who all were well lined. ‘Rose! Rose! God favored Rose who never saw the inside of a chapel. But He made her live on a champagne and oyster diet. And I had to live on food coupons and hand-me-downs.” She cried and cried at the apparent injustice of it.
After she have had a good cry she thought,” If I could get my hands on her I could scratch her eyes out. By the way, where she is now I wonder!”
Next day she found answer to it. She was right on the island having escaped a similar fate some thirty years ago. She had made the island her home and learnt to survive. It was because of her experience and careful ministration that she survived her ordeal.
I wouldn’t say Rose was prepared by God to be of help for her rival for all her ‘goodness’. To make God go through such an elaborate charade to prove His providence on a human being would be an insult to His wisdom.
God equips each to overcome their human failings with the aid of others. Good and bad alike. The one who insisted on her goodness was shallow because she couldn’t see beyond her own narrow interests.
Tailpiece:
The socalled good people can learn from the bad and vice versa. Why? Think of each holding an unique viewpoint as a result of absolute poistion. Of this I shall come back to at later posts. Instead the good pretending holier-than-thou will miss the whole point. It so often happens in life, that it may be the bad who, because of their savviness in areas the self righteous have no idea of, could give a helping hand out of their sticky situation.
benny