Uneventful Beginnings - Incredible Endings

                                                                                       Taken from Chapter Two of A Woman of Strength and Dignity, ESTHER

                                                                                                                                  by Charles R. Swindoll

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Think bibically. Call a few inspiritng scenes to mind. How about that morning when the rains began, resulting in the great Deluge that covered the earth and destroyed all life, save Noah and his family and the animals on the ark? Or what about that morning in the Sinai wilderness when the bush began to burn and wouldn't go out, convincing and eighty-year-old reluctant Moses that he was to lead his people out of Egypt?

  How about the morning on that Judean hillside when a Jewish teenager, tending his father's sheep as usual, heard his father, Jesse, call him inside? And before the sun set that same day, David learned he would one day be the next king of Israel?

How about the day Jesus arrived? There wasn't one citizen in Judea who awoke that morning expecting the day to bring such a life-changing event in the village of Bethlehem. Yet before that day had ended, Mary's little Lamb was born...and the world would never be the same. 

Or, how about the morning Christ was raised from the dead? Nobody expected that-not even His closest disciples. His corpse had been placed in a grave. The grave had been sealed and was being guarded round the clock by Roman soldiers. And yet that ordinary, spring morning introduced the dawning of an incredible series of events that have affected everyone of our lives. 

And finally, what about the day that hasn't happened yet-the day of Christ's return? On that glorious day, children will head off to school, loaded down with their homework and their peanut-butter-and-jelly sandiches. Morning rush-hour traffic will choke the freeways. Merchants will be opening their doors to customers. The stock market will be abuzz with excitement and activity. Homemakes will be shopping. Planes will be taking off and landing. Judges will be sitting at their benches, hearing one case after another. Televison newcasters will be busily gathering the stories of the day. Then suddenly, in the twinkling of an eye, Christ will split the sky, and God's great plan for the future will suddenly take center stage. It could be tomorrow. It could be today! But whenever it is, that morning will begin as just anothr unevenful, ho-hum, no-big-deal kind of day. 

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