In The Blink Of An Eye

 

As I drove into the stadium this morning God put that phrase on my heart.

 

How quickly a life can change……

 

It has taken many of us YEARS to even process what happened in the fall of 2017.  Jared and Genevieve Sommervold were killed in a horrible car accident.  Both were teachers, both were parents, and both were full of life.

In our school, Jared was a teacher and coach who was loved by staff and students alike.

 

It took me a long time to feel like ANYTHING I did, in teaching or coaching, mattered.

 

Making copies…..

Grading papers….

Coaching practice….

 

It all seemed so ridiculous and unimportant.

 

And when I started to feel better—I felt guilty.

 

In The Blink Of An Eye the entire world had changed.  To this day I find no rhyme or reason for how or why something like that makes any sense.  The wounds of this senseless tragedy will never totally be healed…..

 

And our enemy loves that.  The Bible says that “he will come to steal, kill, and destroy” and I truly believe that he loves chaos and disorder and unforgiveness and impatience and hatred.  He prowls about like a hungry lion looking for something to devour.

 

I thank God every day that the enemy does not own the “rest of the story”.  

 

And, in fact, he doesn’t.

 

Jesus made sure of it.

 

In the middle of the day, He made an incredible choice.

 

He took no regard for the law OR the Jewish rules OR the simple fact that He would be disgracing Himself.  

He went and talked to a Samaritan woman.

 

It wasn’t an accidental meeting and He did not “stumble” upon her.  He sought her out.

 

And when He was done speaking into her wretched existence—she changed so much that she influenced an entire town:

 

John 4 39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. 41 And because of his words many more became believers.  42 They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”

 

What is your destiny?

 

You have a choice.  And in a fallen world you do not know how long you truly have to pursue it.

 

I want to encourage you to leave your fate in the bruised and broken hands of Jesus.  Because if you do, He will rewrite the final chapter of your destiny….

And, in Jesus, you are GUARANTEED an enormous victory.

 

I have to believe that if a broken, rejected, and hopeless Samaritan woman can change a city—-

 

Then you can too.

 

And every time I think of Jared—–I am ALL THE MORE MOTIVATED TO DO JUST THAT.

 

Use your time wisely, my friend, it goes fast.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp6oeFDLcpU

 

In The Name of the Father and the

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

 

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Coach J