“When life brings you to your knees, you are in the perfect position to pray.” — (Quote by Taya Kyle)
A man shows up at a distribution center to pick up a package that was not delivered at his doorstep. due to the fact no one was home when the delivery driver stopped. A signature, plus and ID was required for the package. Entering the door to the distribution center, where he sees the workers going in and out, a security officer redirects the man to a nearby door where people go to pick up packages. A young man who had just finished his shift, plus overtime, was sitting in this small area at a table with two chairs. This young man, at first glance, looked like a person you might avoid on the street for personnel safety purposes or to avoid potential confrontation. Nevertheless, after using the phone provided for customers to call to inform workers assigned to that area, the man sits in the unoccupied chair. He strikes up a conversation with the young man and they discuss everything from his place of birth to the school the young man attended and about his goals. They talked about his volunteering to work extra hours so that he could purchase a car to get back and forth to work. Prompted by the man picking up the package, they talked about church and church attendance too. The young man was saved. Thank God. Regularly attending? Well, he’s not quite there yet. Still patiently waiting for someone to bring the package, the conversation continued. The young man talked about his job, the increase in pay from when he first started working, and how many new employees come in excited initially, but soon after, they start complaining about the work and the proper lifting of merchandise technique that is required as a part of the job. That is if you want to avoid injury and continued to experience the blessing of having a job. The young man says, “I gave then some advice. Lifting is not bad when you bend your knees.” The man picking up the package, almost forgetting why he was sitting there, applauded the young man’s efforts to help others with their lifting technique. He says, “That’s nice of you to give good advice.” Do you see where I am heading on this Sunday morning before you head out to worship service?
Well, if you didn’t, let me help you. Let me be like the young man and give you some good lifting advice, if you need help in lifting heavy burdens, lifting anxiety that is weighing heavy on your mind, or lifting hard habits that you want to toss away because they constitute a heavy weight of sin, here is what you have to do. When you want to minimize the strain of lifting the things that I mentioned above or you are one who needs an alternative to complaining about how hard life is, let these words help you, “You have to bend your knees.” In other words, you need to actually or figuratively bend your knees , look to heaven, and pray that the Lord will hear your plea for help and make your situation better and even cancel your concerns about the “heavy lifting” that you personally have to do.” This is good advice! What you do with it is up to you. Enjoy church service with the saints today! Be blessed!
“When I think of all this, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth.” (Ephesians 3:14 NLT)
Still committed to the climb,
Mark L. King