They usually fly into the room at just the right time, when I am not near any object that could actually knock them out. I can hear it buzz and fly by my ear, and try swatting at it...no dice. I then stop what I'm doing to find where it is, and then try to hit it...no dice. I then am distracted from what I was doing, cause the thing keeps flying in front of my face and landing near me ( or on me). I then decide to try to find an object that could knock the fly out for a bit, i can grab it and throw it down the toilet. I usually end up grabbing a few items...a book, sweatshirt, tennis racket...whatever really is in the near by area. I finally after many attempts knock the fly out...out of breath begin to find the fly that i hit...By the time i find it is it back up and flying. I then have 16 objects in both hands, am sweating and yelling and throwing m arms about. That is usually when someone walks in to find out what all the ruckus is...they find you there sweating and out of breath...a bit embarrassing. When all I had to do was go down stairs get the fly swatter, and by the time I would get back the fly would probably be gone, and if not I could kill it properly, and without worry.
This makes me wonder...how much time do I waste in my life trying to knock something out of the way with all the wrong things, and getting frustrated at the same time. Also not even realizing that it is not really of any importance or that big of a deal.
Flies are the small problems or situations in life, that seem to fly out of no where, and land right in front of us or buzz around our heads and you can’t seem to ignore them, they are always surrounding you and happening to cause quite a lot of bother some noise. You can’t seem to think… “ well it will blow over soon… or even if its right in front of my face it will leave soon.” Instead you have the idea to try with your own effort to hit it out of air and knock it to the ground…usually causing more work to find the thing so you can get rid of it.
The tennis racket, sweatshirts, books, are all the things we try to use to solve the problems. Those would be all our own human efforts. All the ways we think that will make the situation better for us. If i just do this, or do that, or don't do this...it will make it better. When really we are suppose to rely on God. God is the proper fly swatter. We always have Him, we just don't choose to use Him. He has given us His word and all the answer..but most of time we don't read about it or learn so when "flies" come we aren't prepared with the right objects to get rid of it.
So find out what the flies are in your life, and choose to use God and His word to knock them out!
P.S. you aren't going to believe this...but while i was writing this...right now there was a fly buzzing around, i went to kill it with a book, and my computer fell off my lap to the ground!!!! I thought i was broke it...FLIP...so advice don't try to kill flies while typing... dear.
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