Murphy's Law!

 

I am sure most of us have heard of Isaac Newton, quite a clever bloke. He was a mathematician, astronomer, physicist, author, theologian and inventor. He is the one who worked out about gravity, so when the apple supposedly dropped from the tree and fell on his head, he didn’t, like most of us, go ouch, but went on to develop a theory that things fall down, not up. Even if a helium filled balloon bursts, the bits will fall downwards. Most of us understand that when you drop a slice of buttered toast it falls to the floor, usually buttered side down, (maybe’s there’s a law for that!), but nevertheless it falls to the ground. Unless you are out in space where you are weightless, gravity applies to us all. However,  I’m sure some of us would like their weight to be less! Gravity is something we rely on and its reliability I had a thought about.
 
In the Gospel of John 8:6 Jesus says, “ ……… But He who sent me is reliable and what I have heard from Him I tell the world”. (NIV)
 
We often have good intentions when we say things like, ‘I’ll call you later’ or ‘I’ll pop in next week’ or ‘I’ll pray for you’, but so many times we forget or something else crops up and we find, even with good intentions, we sadly find ourselves a bit unreliable. I know we most probably don’t mean to be, but it is something that can easily happen.
 
Back to the verse in John, aren’t we so glad that God is reliable, because it means that all the time and forever He can be fully trusted. His promises are true. Just imagine if God’s creation wasn’t reliable and gravity randomly was there and then not there. We wouldn’t know if we were going up or down, floating on air or flat on our backs.
 
God is, good, all the time and all the time God is good. He is reliable, He is our God, let’s praise Him. Do I hear an Amen!