Sometimes you get what you ask for

To a certain extent, I am really grateful that God has many times NOT given me the desire of my heart.

He knows what is best for me far more than I do.

Here's what I know:  Sometimes when people finally get what they want and long for - it is not all that it is cracked up to be. 

In fact, it can even be detrimental to their spiritual, emotional and physical health.

There is the story of a fly that was buzzing along one morning when he saw a lawn mower someone had left out in their front yard.  He flew over and sat on the handle, watching the children going down the sidewalk on their way to school.

One little boy tripped on a crack and fell, spilling his lunch on the sidewalk.  He picked himself up, put his lunch back in the bag and went on.  But he missed a piece of bologna.

The fly had not eaten that morning and he was very hungry.  So he flew down and started eating the bologna.

In fact, he ate so much bologna that he could not fly, so he waddled across the sidewalk, across the lawn, up to the wheel of the lawn mower, up the handle, and sat there resting and watching the children.

There was still some bologna laying there on the sidewalk.  He was really stuffed, but that baloney sure did look good.

Finally temptation got the best of him and he jumped off the handle of the lawn mower to fly over to the baloney.  But alas, he was too full to fly and went splat!!! - killing him instantly.

The moral of the story:  Don't fly off the handle when you are full of baloney.

There is a dark side to us - that is a reckless as the fly.

It doesn't matter, seemingly, what the cost are, we just HAVE TO have it. 

Our carnal nature is like that, so full of baloney, that we can't see it and we fly off the handle, thinking we can handle it all and in the end - we end up splat!

My word today?  Be careful what you ask for - you just  might get it.

Just a thought for a Tuesday.