Listening to That Small Voice
I live in a Senior Citizen’s complex. One day the electricity went off in my
apartment, but not the other apartments. I advised the Resident Manager, and she
and another resident came to see what the problem was. They found that the
breaker on the outside of the building was off and turned it back on. It was a
Friday and the Maintenance men were working someplace else. My electricity was
working so they felt no need to call them to come right away. On Sunday, I found
out that it was the water heater that was causing the problem.
During the early morning hours on Monday I woke up and noted that the
electricity was off again. I didn’t know what to do. If I turned it back on and
there was something wrong it could maybe cause a fire or something else. I
called the Resident Manager and she came and turned it back on outside and then
flipped the switch for the water heater off in the breaker box in my bedroom.
She called the maintenance man later in the a.m. and let me know they would be
there at 8:30 a.m.
Now, I had a problem. How was I going to get washed up and dressed before they
got there? The thought came to my mind to warm some water up on the stove, but I
decided I would just get dressed. The thought came to me again to warm up some
water on the stove, so I decided to do it. While that was warming I could eat my
breakfast. In the middle of eating I figured the water should be boiling so went
to check, but it wasn’t. It kinda puzzled me, but I went back and finished
breakfast. When I checked it again the water was cold. I thought that the
Resident Manager must have flipped the wrong switch off accidentally or had
turned both the water heater and the stove off. I got in the box and looked, but
could see only one flipped off. I called the Manager and told her. She was
flabbergasted. She said that the breaker box must have been marked wrong when
they built the complex and that the young man would have thought that the switch
was flipped off for the water heater and would have just gotten right in there
and started pulling the live wires off. She said that he would have been
electrocuted. They were told the circumstances and they checked it out and
changed the markings for the switches to indicate the right appliance and
replaced the water heater.
I told the young man about how I wasn’t going to heat the water on the stove,
but was impressed again to do it. I told him that God knew they were hooked up
wrong when they were put in there. I told him that God saved his life.
I am so glad that I listened when God impressed me to heat that water. If I
hadn’t I would have had to see a very young man die in my apartment. I would
have had to live with the thought that I hadn’t listened when God had impressed
me to do something and what the outcome was. How many times have I not listened
when I was impressed to do something that will have eternal consequences?
Someday I will find out what happened and what could have happened.
WISE REFLECTION
It you but knew what this day would bring,
You’d choose to live it all for your Heavenly King.
So why not trust in Him to lead you all the way,
You will be glad you did at the ending of each day.
By Norma Wellman
butterflyblue7@frontier.com