This is part of my "Metro Revelations"-written during a time when my car was out of commission and public transportation was my best friend, but God....
The Leaf Bug
Since majority of my writings have been from bus stop endeavors this one is no different. I was sitting waiting on the bus possibly on my way to praise dance rehearsal when I heard a pretty loud thud behind my head. When I turned around, there was this huge, green bug on the glass. Thankfully, it was on the opposite side than I was because I am deathly afraid of bugs. As boring as it may sound, I was intrigued, probably scared, so I just sat and watched this creature. I turned away for a split second and when I looked back it was gone. It took all of five minutes for me to find it, but I noticed it had found it's way into the grass. It blended in so well that it was hardly visible. Immediately the song "Safety" came to mind which is based on Psalm 91. God is our protector, He hides us in the safety of His arms...Had the bug stayed on the glass or crawled onto the side I was on and my desire was to kill him, I could have, but he was hidden until he could think of his next move...Hallelujah-just thinking of that-reminds me that God is so awesome..How many times has God hidden us, kept us from danger from outsiders and from ourselves. Glory be to God.
The second revelation I got was from the bug's appearance...When I first saw the bug, I surmised that it was ugly, but we need to stop judging appearances. The bug wasn't ugly in God's sight. He was beautiful, fearfully and wonderfully made. It was perfect. God makes no mistakes, we do, but God is perfect. I also realized that like the bug blended into the grass we also need to blend, we need to stop trying to be the center of everything including our situations especially when God just wants us to be still right where we are, in the place that He has so cautiously ordered us to be. God doesn't always put us in the limelight. Sometimes he just puts us in a place where we blend in and are not readily seen so that we can see what others are missing...
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