A murderer, No Doubt!

The people of the island saw it (a snake) hanging from his hand and said to each other, "A murderer, no doubt! Though he escaped the sea, justice will not permit him to live." But Paul shook off the snake into the fire and was unharmed. The people waited for him to swell up or suddenly drop dead. But when they had waited a long time and saw that he wasn't harmed, they changed their minds and decided he was a god.

Acts 28:4-6

Isn't it funny how we let circumstances change our minds? I mean, reallly, these natives thought he was a murderer, then they thought he was a god! Talk about wavering, but that's how we can be as well.

I just got finished reading some emails from other Blue Ridge Mountain Christian Writer's Conference attendees talking about "flat tires". In essence, they were talking about how we let the circumstances of life change our course of direction. At this writer's conference, we all got pumped up on what God has in store for us (note the present tense of the verb has), and we had big plans of following through on each and every one of them. Once we got home, however, life threw it's nails in our path and began to deflate the tires of our enthusiasm. Let's not let Satan derail us from the path God has already chosen for us. Oh, rest assured he will try any and everything he can think of, but remember two things: 1)Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world (1 John 4:4); and 2)God already has big plans for you, you just have to walk them out! (Jer. 29:11)