Flexibility

I Corinthians 10:31-33 - Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for God’s glory.  Give no offense to the Jews or the Greeks or the church of God, just as I also try to please all people in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, so that they may be saved.

Years ago, Frank Lloyd Wright was given the impossible task of building the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. No comparable construction job ever before had been undertaken. With patience he laid plans for the immense building in this land of earth-quakes and terrible tremors. After carefully reviewing the situation, he found that eight feet below the surface of the ground lay a sixty-foot bed of soft mud. Why not float the great structure on this and in some way make it absorb the shock of the earthquake? After four years of work, amid ridicule and jeers of skeptical onlookers, this most difficult building in the world was completed, and soon arrived the day which tested it completely. The worst earthquake in fifty-two years caused houses and buildings all around to tumble and fall in ruins. But the Imperial Hotel stood, because it was able to adjust itself to the tremors of the earth.

2. Smith, in Resources, #2.

Acts 17:22-34 When Paul was in Athens, he saw an altar with the inscription: "To the unknown God". He even quoted one of their poets. He was flexible enough to begin with what they knew and he led them into what they didn't know, allowing the Spirit of God to do His work.

In what ways are we willing to be flexible with God’s direction in our lives or with how He chooses to use us?  He has a greater purpose and plan that He has invited us to be a part of.  That purpose in our lives may not always look like how we think it should, but God knows what He is doing.  We can trust Him.

Have a Wonderful Week!

Scott Forsythe