place of nathan.

The other day, i went to turn on the water faucet so i could water our herb garden. To turn it on, i have to lean over our air conditioner unit. As I bent over and extended my hand, i saw a snake jump and slither away. That made me jump back!
The interesting thing about that is I am not afraid of snakes. It’s not like I have a pet snake or something, but I’m not one of those crazed snake haters or anything, either. But yet I was genuinely frightened by a small garter snake.
Why was that? Something I’m not afraid of frightened me? eh?

It wasn’t the fact that I saw a snake–it was the fact that i saw an unexpected snake.

I think often time in our lives, God does something for us that is unexpected, and because it’s so unexpected, we don’t know how to react. We are unable to tell if it ‘just happened,’ was a coincidence, or what. We just assume it happened, so it happened. Perhaps we don’t react scared, but perhaps not reacting at all to God is worst of all?

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