Interruptions

 Greetings to you all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

     Romans 15:22-25 says, “For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you.  But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you; Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company.  But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.”

     Mark Lowly once did a skit on”interruptions.”  Many times we find that our plans are interrupted and we end up doing something different than we had hoped in the beginning.We find that the plans that we had just turned out to be a lot different the word for hindered up above was the word were saved with chop up the pathway and stop the forward movement.    Last Monday I found myself back at the hospital I didn't plan on that so it's been a few days there came back on Friday and came back to find it my computer was dead and it my phone charger cable is also broken which means I have to type by devotions on my laptop which is really not convenient so my communication to you has been impeded so to speak.  

     The Apostle Paul had a desire to get to Rome and every time he would try to get there something else would come up and you end up going someplace else sometimes the things that occurred in life are not necessarily good things but they do stop us from doing what we intended to do.   There is another passage in 1st Thessalonians where Paul says that Satan hindered him from going to thessalonica.   we often find that true also where the evil one will put a block between us and that which we intended to accomplish this impeding our progress,  However in my case I need to determine what things are of God at what things are of Satan I may have my own plans and they may not necessarily be God's plans.  I looked at the experience of going to the hospital and wondered why I was there and I did have an opportunity to speak to different people make new acquaintances sing a few songs not necessarily having a good time but it wasn't that bad so God had a purpose God has a purpose in doing a lot of things in our lives sometimes it changes the direction that we plan to go it's like we say he opens doors and closes doors and I just go through the open doors that he has put before us.   It would be obvious that the open doors are those doors which actually do the will of God and as we look in the New Testament we realize what God's will is.  For instance he says to give thanks in everything sometimes that's hard to do but that's the will of God.  Praise God today for the interruptions in your life and in my life God has a purpose.