If Only
Isaiah 48
I’ve just seen an ad on You-tube that is titled ‘reply all’.
Two men are working at their computers in an office cubicle. One sends an email to the other that triggers a smile—followed suddenly by alarm. “Rod, you sent this email ‘Reply all.’ You hit ‘Reply all’!”
Rod panics and sprints down the hallway. Screaming at the top of his lungs, he runs through a meeting room grabbing laptop computers away from those seated at the table. He dashes between offices carrying away desktop computers, still screaming. He reaches through a window into a home office and takes the laptop from a woman typing at a desk, still screaming. He leaps up the stairs leading to an office building knocking cell phones from people’s hands.
On he goes, screaming like a man who has lost everything, attacking the computers and hand-held devices of a man walking in a parking garage, another man eating in a restaurant, a man hiking in a forest, a man sitting on a park bench. Finally, climactically, Rod rips a bundle of wires out of the wall of a computer electronics room, sending out a shower of sparks.
Like Rod with his email, have you ever communicated anything that you later regretted? Have you said anything you wished you could take back?
If only … v18
I am sure we can all look back on lives with unfinished business, if only.
Michaelangelo worked on 44 statues in his life. Thirty were never finished. These unfinished works, the unfulfilled potential of a great genius will never be completed.
There are works of God in your life still to be finished. There is potential that is not being realised. Are you ready to be set free to become all that you can become before your opportunity is over.
As we approach the end of the year and the start of a new one, let us all be determined to have as few ‘if only’ comments over our lives. Let us fulfil our potential. Let us trust the Lord and obey Him.
Missions Paul 