One Day in the Plumb Thicket.....

On this day Susan and I were driving around town. We found ourselves out in the country. Susan looks over and sees that we are passing a plumb thicket. "Oh ! Lets stop here for a bit".
While Susan and I were enjoying the plumbs and the great weather, Our discussion went like this... How good God was. He provided this great day, Beautiful weather, Great plumbs growing wild, and an enjoyable time for my wife and I. How great is God ? !...He provides !!!

Then it happened....A car rides by real slow. As he passed by we made eye contact. He pulls over down the road a bit and starts picking plumbs. I said to Susan.. There it is..The reason we are here right now. As he works his way closer to us, he says.." Great plumbs today". Susan replies God sure is great, we don't even have to go to the store for these, He put them here just for us...
As we talked with him his story unfolds like this... He has cancer and he is dying the doctor says it will come soon. He is poor and does not have insurance. He has two younger children and a wife at home. He cant stand to think of his kids watching him "Go down" "and suffer and die like that". So he left his home to spare them the sight on what he knows is coming. When he left home he even left his church family as well. He said "I'm just gonna go off and die alone" He a was concerned that he not leave his wife any debt so he has not gotten any treatment. HE JUST GAVE UP. HE HAD NO HOPE AT ALL.

Susan stepped right up and said we need to pray for you right now! As we began to pray and lay on hands, I noticed that he was silent. The spirit fell right there in that Church plumb thicket. Susan was speaking in that heavenly tongue. I could hardly stand up. Then I heard him. He was praying too asking for help, forgiveness. It was POWERFUL . He was praying !!!!!

After the prayer we just stood there talking of the wonders of the Lord and how he works. We talked for a long time. I noticed while we were spending time together he was light hearted and smiling. He said that he was going home today and was going back to his pastor and back to the hospital. In the beginning of our encounter He was so down hearted , sad ,hopeless and now he was upbeat.

He had Hope again!! This encounter in the plumb thicket gave this man hope again! He was smiling and crying at the same time. He appeared to be happy and relieved. We spent a good long time in the plumb thicket on this day with this man. I am sure that he left the plumb thicket better than when he arrived there.

Think about this for a moment....How many events had to take place... To get all three of us out of our cars in a plumb thicket out in the country at the exact same time on that Saturday afternoon? Do you think this was a chance meeting ?
I THINK NOT ???

I wonder.... How many times in a day do we come across some person who has lost hope? And we miss it because we are in a hurry or on the cell phone or all wrapped up in our own lives.

I'M just saying it might be a better approach to slow down a bit LOOK for the opportunity to spread the Love of our Creator.

What a great day in the Plumb Thicket !!!

And so we go.........In the name of Jesus.