Punked

I had a really interesting experience today that I wanted to share... I was getting ready to leave for work this morning it was raining really hard. I had my jacket over my arm, was carrying my brief case, had my keys in my hand, a Seahawks poster that I got at the game yesterday [to hang in my office] and my sunglasses were in one of my hands as well. I was standing on the porch looking at the rain and looking at my car. I was thinking of the quickest route to the car to minimize the wetness of me and more importantly, my poster! I unlocked my car and proceeded to move rapidly through the rain to the rear door on the driver side. As I quickly approached the door, I heard the doors lock. I hesitated for a second so that I could roll my eyes and reached for the door. Yes, indeed my doors were now locked. I began to fumble my keys around to find the "unlock" button. In the process of finding the button, I dropped my sun glasses and they bounced off my shoe and went under my car. Meanwhile, I am getting soaked and so is my poster. I get the door open, throw everything in the back seat, climb under the car and grab my sunglasses and then jumped in the car. By this point I am furious! I am convinced that the enemy is attacking me for some reason.... I turn the engine, turn off my radio and proceed to drive to work in complete silence while trying to calm down.
I got to work and went through my day as normal, not giving the mornings antics a second thought. I then grab my things and head to the car for the drive home. The parking garage was really full this morning, so I had to go down 4 levels to find a place to park. When I got to my car, I put my things in the back and entered the car for the drive home. I sat there for a moment and decided it would be a good time to pray real quick before heading out.
Immediately, I hear this laughter and ask Jesus, “What’s that all about?”… He says, “let’s talk about what happened this morning”… Now, I had not thought about what happened this morning at all until that moment. Jesus continues in a kind of “laughing” voice and says, “Dude, you always think it’s the enemy”… and He was particularly amused with Himself for dumping huge rain on me and knocking my glasses out my hand. I was honestly shocked for second by the discussion – I simply began to laugh really really hard. It was a valuable lesson for me to learn today. It’s not always the enemy and it’s not always an attack. Sometimes things just happen and other times it might just be Jesus punking you for being stupid and blaming the enemy for every bad thing that ever happens to you. I got totally punked. When I went through the above sequence of events after understanding all of this, it’s hilarious. This is the kind of stuff you see on America’s Funniest Home Videos or something.
In the end I thanked Jesus for the lesson and smiled for the entire ride home. Every time I look at the water damaged Seahawks poster in my office at work, it will remind of today’s talk. It’s great to have a Savior and teacher with a good sense of humor. How can you not love this guy!?