There was a 5 year old girl who really liked to play, she could never stay still, always going back and forth to play with whatever she saw. One day, She came to play at her uncle’s house with her father and mother.
When her parents were talking to her uncle, she found something new that piqued her curiosity, namely a fan at the end of the room. The girl doesn’t have a fan in her house, so the fan is something new and interesting for her. She got closer to the fan and was about to put his hand into the fan that was spinning fast.
Her father who saw this was very shocked, he immediately ran to his daughter and blocked her hand from the fan. The father then scolded his daughter and forbade her to play with the fan. Because of what his father did, the daughter looked into her father’s eyes with anger. She ended up crying so hard she shouted, “Bad father!”
The daughter represents us, the fan represents something that can destroy us, and the father represents God. We are often attracted by something that can actually destroy us. Of course if we “touch” something that can destroy us, not good things will happen, but bad things.
Often God immediately runs and blocks us from such a bad thing.God does that to protect us and because He loves us. However, we like to be unaware of the protection God has given us. When God protects us from things that can destroy us, we get angry with Him. We say God is evil because He doesn’t give us what we want.
Our thoughts and God’s thoughts are very different, like the difference between the earth and the sky. Like the child who does not understand the danger of the fan and the father who understands the danger of the fan, such is the difference between our understanding and God’s understanding.
If God is holding you back from something today (maybe it’s a job you want, maybe it’s a relationship you want, or maybe it’s an item you want), don’t be angry with Him. God stops you not just for fun, but because He knows what’s best for you. He is protecting you from bad things that can destroy you in the future.
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not My ways, declares the LORD. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts higher than your thoughts.”
𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐫 