Time reads as 1400hrs, after hours long delay, all passengers were boarded the plane and it was ready to take off. but it didn't happen as usual, it got further delayed. then the captain broke the silence, almost after two hours since they were boarded. "welcome on board, i'm your captain for today's flight. i'm afraid that i have to bring you this bad news, we have to reschedule this flight at 1800 hrs due to a technical failure". another four hours ? the passengers were not happy at all.
needless to say how much jet fuel wasted, how many important appointments got cancelled. how many man-hours wasted and all associated resources with it. just like that, how many hours, days, months and years have we wasted in our lives ? countless, isn't it ?
if we turn back a few thousand years... a man named Moses spent his best time in life, in a desert. trying to find his way to the "Promised Land". the months, years he spent in the desert were countless. but if you take a deep look into this man, you could see that it was nothing but God's plan. that it was God, Who took Moses through the desert to, make him in the liking of God.
when we first see Moses in the Bible, he's an arrogant, pride, selfish and a stubborn person. but God chose him to take His people out of Egypt from slavery. to lead his people to the "promised land". God took this arrogant, pride, stubborn person and made him a humble, generous yet a kind person with patients. God made him a vessel to pour his spirit upon him. made him a loyal servant of God. this didn't happen in an overnight but took a number of years..as you could see it in the Bible.
the same way, God is taking you and me thru life.. to unlearn our bad habits, change our lives from our wrong ways and transform us into the image of Christ. when we look back, the time we have spent.. time we have wasted, they all didn't happen for no reason. there was a perfect reason and a plan. that's the perfect plan of God. if you measure the time we've wasted and the things we've learned. what we have gained far outweighs to what was wasted. which cannot be measured by any means.
God has a plan and a purpose for each and every person, understanding his plan and allowing Him in our lives is the best we could do, during the limited number of days of our existence. making our ways according to him and transform our lives into His image is what's going to take us away from roaming around the "desert" like it was with Moses... which brings us happiness in this life and life after death.
note:
the "wasted years" was something, what most of my friends used to tell me and regret. but quite often, they failed to realise, why they've had wasted so many years. i just wanted to express how i feel about it; the best possible way i could.
the given video, Brenton Brown's Humble king was first heard in 2001, when i was going thru a bumpy ride in life, like what moses did. but up to this moment, i never regret for taking that bumpy ride. which is what transformed me into His image.
i bought the entire album containing "Humble King" off iTunes store. it's a production of Vineyard Records, UK. , a couple of weeks back. since it wasn't available on amazon.com (cdnow.com).
