The Twilight Zone....

The other night my husband and I were flipping through the channels. We
had retired for the evening and were just trying to unwind a little before
sleep. Suddenly there appeared a very young William Shatner on the screen.
He has been quite the figure on television for the Baby Boomer generation so
we decided to pause our search for a few minutes to see what he was up to.
It was a rare time when he was not dressed in his Star Fleet uniform and
commanding the Enterprise. As we watched it appeared that he and his fiancé
were in route to the town where he was to interview for a better position
with the company he was with. They would have to move to that town if the
promotion came through and they were going to look around before the
interview. They had stopped in a little town along the way and had gone
into this benign looking little café for a bite to eat. They sat at a booth
and on the wall, instead of one of those mini juke boxes, hung a box with
the bobble head of the devil. One of the devils eyes was closed in a wink
as if to tell you that he knew something that you should know. And there
was a slot that said that if you put in a penny you could get your future.
Well, old Bill put in the first penny and asked if he was truly going to get
his promotion. The machine spit out a little piece of paper that assured
him he would. He put in another penny and asked if they would be happy
living in the new town. Again the answer was what they wanted to hear.
Bill became obsessed. Penney after penny went into the machine. He was
becoming a firm believer in the "devil" machine and his girlfriend was
becoming very upset. He said that he wanted to just put in one more penny
before they left. He asked the devil machine if they left by 3:00 could
they make good time to the town they were going to. The machine spit out
the word "danger". Well, after about another dime's worth of questions,
Bill had determined that if they were to leave the town they were in before
three, they would be in danger. So now we watch Bill staring at the clock,
and his girlfriend pacing and wringing her hands. She finally says that
enough is enough and she is not going to let some silly machine control her
and that she wants to leave right now. Bill reluctantly agrees and they
leave at three minutes to three. Of course there is the ominous music in
the background now as they exit the café. As they are walking across the
street to their car a truck comes out of no where and Bill has to grab his
girlfriend and pull her out of the way. Now old Bill is full of himself and
the "devil" machine and tells her that he must go back in and ask some more
questions if only to prove to her that this is real. He starts putting
coins into the machine and the little bobble head starts bouncing happily.
Bill has become obsessed with the machine and his girlfriend becomes very
frightened and she tells Bill that he needs to wake up and that she is
leaving with or without him and that superstition is not the answer it is a
trap. Of course he sees her way and they drive away from the little town
together. Then you see a couple enter the café. They head right to the
booth that was previously occupied by Bill and his fiancé. This couple
looks worn down and tired and they look like they have been wearing the same
clothes for years. They sit down and look at the devil and put in their
penny and ask if they will ever be able to leave this town. Is there any
way out? Are they stuck there forever? Then the music...do do do do, do do
do do and you know that they are stuck in the "Twilight Zone". "The End"
comes up on the screen.

How many of you are stuck in the Twilight Zone? How many of you are
checking your Horoscope every morning on the internet or in the newspaper
before you will even leave the house? How many of you have gone to Psychic
readers? How many of you rely on the direction and opinions of others to
get through life? If you do these things, you too are in the Twilight Zone
and you are in trouble.

God created you live and function in this world and to stay in contact with
Him. He is your heavenly Father and everything you need IS provided by Him
and Him alone. The stars don't talk. Humans make you think that they talk
because they do all the talking for them. No man knows the future. Trust
me. If anyone really could predict the future, he or she would be locked up
in some underground bunker for safe keeping and there would only be one
country in charge of everything. You were created with free will. If you
knew everything, would you really have free will? Or would you be bound by
what was told to you like old Bill in the story I just told you. He was
becoming a prisoner of what was told to him and therefore locked into that
machine and that little town. He rose above the temptation and desire to
know everything and left. But the other couple became prisoner's of the
little town where the machine that told their future was. Their lives
ended there totally unfulfilled and void of any promise.

We have an enemy who wants to keep us from what God has created us for and
from all of God's blessings. The machine in the story had the head of the
devil on the top of it and rightfully so. How many times out of fear and
indecision have you listened to the whisperings of the devil instead of
seeking your heavenly Father for the answer? The Bible instructs us to "Be
anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication, with
thanksgiving, let your requests be known to God, and the peace that
surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds through Christ
Jesus. (Philippians 4:6 NKJV) and to "Trust in the Lord with all your hearts
and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him,
and He shall direct your paths." (Proverbs 3: 5-6 NKJV) If you will always
be faithful to seek God, I guarantee that you will never find yourself in
the Twilight Zone. Do do do do, do do do do....Patti