Most of us understand the premise of Murphy’s Law all too well, which is basically stated: “If something can go wrong, it will, and usually at the most inopportune time.” Why is it that the gasoline light on the dashboard of your car comes on when you are already running late for an appointment? How come your child discovers homework is missing when you are ready to walk out the door for school? Why is the severity of an itch inversely proportional to one’s reach? Why is it that a spilled drink flows in the direction of the most expensive object? Why are paper towels and toilet paper always strongest at the perforations? It seems as though there is a conspiracy of universal proportions mankind must deal with as we live on this planet called earth!
Former heavy-weight boxer James (Quick) Tillis tells about his experience when he moved to Chicago from Oklahoma in a quest to fulfill his dreams of being a top-level boxer in the early 1980s. He claims: "I got off the bus with two cardboard suitcases under my arms in downtown Chicago and stopped in front of the Sears Tower. I put my suitcases down, and I looked up at the Tower and I said to myself, 'I'm going to conquer Chicago.' "When I looked down, the suitcases were gone." (This story is from Today in the Word—September 10, 1992)
NO WONDER WE NEED A SAVIOR!!! No wonder Luke felt it was necessary to write a book we classify as a “Gospel”, which literally means, “Good News”! We could all use a little of that, couldn’t we, after all we have been through in our lives? And as we study the writings of Luke over the next 6 months, he is going to have plenty to say concerning the frustrations we encounter in this life and the victory God has to offer through the gift of His Son as our Savior!
One of the emotions consistently emphasized by the characters found in chapter one of Luke is the JOY they have over the invasion of God into their lives and their history! A barren couple is given reason to rejoice by bearing a son who will be a “prophet of the Most High” (Luke 1:76)! A woman from Nazareth (“Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?”—John 1:46) is selected by God to bring forth and care for His “Son of the Most High”—(Luke 1:32)! A time of oppression and darkness is visited by the “Sunrise from on High”—(Luke 1:78)! In other words, God is actively working in this world to bring us peace and light and hope and victory, even in the face of Murphy’s Law and other negative aspects of this life!
Don’t let the things of this world strip away your JOY!!! God is in control and by walking with Him we can see how Murphy’s Law is trumped by the love and activities of our Father in heaven! Jesus might say it this way, “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world." (John 16:33)
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