“Sometimes, I Guess There Just Aren’t Enough Rocks”
In the movie “Forrest Gump”, Forrest and Jenny are walking down the road that Jenny was raised on, and they come upon her old home place, then all of a sudden Jenny starts throwing rocks at the house, all the bad memories of her youth caught up with her all at once and the rocks start flying. She threw and threw until she couldn’t find another rock and falls to the ground exhausted.
That’s when Forrest says. “Sometimes, I Guess There Just Aren’t Enough Rocks”.
And that’s the way it is at times everything seems to hit you all at once. All the emotion of the past comes down on us.
Nothing we can do to erase the heartache and hurt that is long behind us.
Sometimes objects in the rear-view mirror may appear closer than they really are, and we let yesterday destroy our today and control our steps for tomorrow.
So, the things of yesterday sneak up, and before we know it, we are knocked down, we have thrown every rock we could find, every excuse why the things happened and wondering why they had to happen to me?
But the problem is that the past is still there. The memories are still there, the money is gone, the love is gone, and all that I thought I would have, is now gone.
And as the song says:
“I’m diggin’ up bones, I’m diggin’ up bones,
Exhuming things that’s better left alone”
Paul said to the Church of Philippi:
Philippians 3:13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. NKJV
We can’t continue onward always looking back, you can’t go too yesterday; you can only live for today with hopes for tomorrow.
Luke 9:62 But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.” NKJV
The song “The Anchor Holds” says:
I’ve had visions, I’ve had dreams; I’ve even held them in my hand.
But I never knew they would slip right through, like they were only grains of sand.
Slipping through our fingers as sand, until it is gone, and then we sit and think what might have been, or why couldn’t it have been different?
Then it hits me.
I’m the one that has control. I’m the one digging up bones. And I’m the one exhuming thing’s that’s better left alone.
So how do I not let this get me down yet again?
Again, Paul said to the Church of Philippi:
Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I will say, rejoice!
Praise God for whom He is and what He has done, Paul said. “Rejoice in the Lord” When? “Always” that means all the time.
5 Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication,
(that means your heart felt burdens and your petitions or request) with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
So, where does this peace of God come from? Keep reading.
Ponder on these things:
8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy — meditate on these things. 9 The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.
So, the “peace of God”, come from, the “God of peace”.
June 15, 1989, at my home Church in Powder Springs Georgia around 7:00pm I knelt down in Pastor Ben Turner’s office as Pastor Snyder went over the plan of salvation.
He said, “you know this, you know what to do” and I did know, as I have said I was raised in church, we were usually the first ones there and the last to leave, I had helped build the very building we were sitting in.
I had worked in ministries and even myself lead people to the Lord. I was and I would like to think I still am a pretty good guy, but because I myself had never accepted Christ as my Lord and Savior, I WAS HELL BOUND.
The day before this I felt as my world was coming to an end and as far as I cared my life could have ended right then.
But (don’t you just love conjunctions? I do; it means the story is not over yet.) I did bow my head, and I did ask Jesus to save me, and He DID SAVE ME.
Over the last 30 something years He (Jesus) has NOT walked away and left me alone, and he never not once stopped Loving me that I can count on, He said:
Deuteronomy 31:6 Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you.” NKJV
Josh 1:5 No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you nor forsake you. NKJV
Philippians 4:10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last your care for me has flourished again; though you surely did care, but you lacked opportunity. 11 Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: 12 I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
And here it is this is how we face tomorrow and not let yesterday control us:
13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
The song “The Anchor Holds” says:
But it was in the night,
Through the storms of my life,
Oh, that’s where God proved, His love to me,
The anchor holds, Though the ship is battered,
The anchor holds, Though the sails are torn,
I have fallen on my knees,
As I faced the raging seas,
The anchor holds,
In spite of the storm.
So just drop anchor and hold on, God’s not done with you yet.
From: “Something to Ponder.” Chapter 6
