Life's Interruptions - Obstacles or Opportunities?

We hate it when things don't go our way. When life throws us a curve ball, we pout, complain and have an all out self-pity party - complete with ice cream and cake! Have you ever considered such interruptions are really golden opportunities? I know it's hard to embrace the end of a long-term relationship you invested your all into or the disappointment that accompanies not getting that dream job or losing hundreds or even thousands of dollars in a business deal gone bad, but consider this - everything happens for a reason (even when the reason is still to be determined). In Bishop Eddie Long's new book, The Elect Lady(Whitaker House), Bishop shares his personal story about his mother, penned especially for women, and how God's interruptions in her life was actually God's perfect plan for her materializing in the natural.

Bishop Long and his ministry host an annual Heart to Heart Women's Conference. It was during one of these most-recent conferences that he gave into the pleading of his wife to address the women personally. He didn't want to at first - he believed that someone else was qualified to address these ladies but the urging of his wife finally convinced him, which was really him obeying what God had already prepared in his heart. In his heart, was his mother's story of selflessness that is seen clearly by the fruit of his own life.

His mother sacrificed her own safety and stayed in an abusive marriage because of his young, desperate pleas begging her not to leave him. In fact, his very words were, "If you leave me, I will die." He said it with such conviction that you can only imagine for a mother to see her child distraught and to utter such words, she would change her mind to appease her child, just as his mother did. She stayed in her abusive marriage enduring heartbreaking betrayals and trials all in the name of staying for the children's sake.

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Credit: Bishop Eddie Long

Copyright: Bishop Eddie Long