When Things Look Like Something They Are Not

Just A Little Note

When Things Look Like Something They're Not

There are a number of things that happen throughout life that can look like something it's not.  I have a few examples in mind. 

A couple years ago we helped a neighbor with a garage sale.  My daughters and I brought cards and played during the slow hours of the day.   I've played this card game since I was a kid. 

We don't bet money when we play the game, because we don't gamble, We just like playing the game.  On a particular day we were playing, the cards were dealt and customers came in to look.   Someone noticed my cards and asked what we were playing and we told him we were playing rummy.

After He left the sale, I looked at my hand, which I had held up the whole time.  I noticed I had two aces and they were both spades.   I couldn't believe it, It looked as though  I was cheating.  You know the old saying "He has an ace up his sleeve."     We stopped the game, counted the cards, and found an extra ace in the deck.  This wasn't planned, sometimes we play other games that require three decks of cards, somehow one just got put in the wrong place.

Sometimes things happen by accident, I just had to put it in God's hands,  if that man thought I was cheating and if he did he was wrong.

Now when you're having a garage sale at someone else's house, many people may come in and not know it isn't your home.  The owner of the home was selling small liquor bottles and when I saw them I became concerned someone may think I was having a nip every now and then.  Well, I don't drink and my family doesn't either.  The point is sometimes it could look like someone has been drinking and they haven't been.

 

I can think of a time we went to Good-Will to shop, When we  were finished shopping we left carrying a box and noticed, after we had carried it all the way to our car, that we were advertising for a beer product. 

I'm sure if there were any gossipers around who knew us, they would have had a hay day with that one.

I can think of many other things that have happened through the years that could've caused someone to believe something that isn't true. 

One of the things I did when my kids were little was I kept after them to take their vitamins.  Now that I'm older, I feel God has turned things around on me because my husband is telling me to take mine.
When we took a flight to Hawaii, on our early twenty-fifth anniversary, He pulled out a baggy of pills, "vitamins".  I was concerned someone would think we were doing drugs or something.  It just looked like a lot of pills in one bag and could have looked suspicious to someone.
Someone could have jumped to the conclusion that we were doing  drugs, but they would have been wrong
because we don't do drugs.  Vitamins and sinus tablets do not count if they are for sinus aggravation only.

Now many say we shouldn't worry about what others think about us.  I don't think we should worry, but we should care to a certain extent, because our lives DO impact others and their choices in life.   

There was a time a year or so ago.  I looked at a picture of my nephew, He looked angered and it looked like he was holding a gun.  I became concerned, not out of criticism for him, but because I care about him,  but it was a reflection shining off a CD he was holding, that made it look like a gun.

I said something about it, "thinking it was a gun."  It looked like a gun, but it wasn't, so I had to apologize and felt foolish for saying anything, especially because I thought someone was upset with me.

When it comes to seemingly accidental  instances like this and the other things I mentioned, We just have  to trust God, that He will work things out, protect us and our reputation.

Susan Nikitenko

Just A Little Note

January 31si, 2015

Romans 8:28

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

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