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When You Want to throW a red Flag out on god
By Tony Evans
When a head coach on an NFL team perceives that the ref- eree has made a wrong call, award- ing a key play to the opposition, he throws out a red ag.
is red ag signals that the referee needs to review the play again. Ob- viously the coach believes that the referee has made a mistake.
ere are times in our lives, espe- cially when we are caught between a rock and a hard place, when we want to throw a red ag out on God. We want to stop the game and throw down the red ag because it looks like God has made a wrong call. It looks like He has missed something. It looks like He didn’t know what He was doing because if He did, He wouldn’t have called things that way. We think thoughts like - If God had known how this was going to a ect
me, He wouldn’t have allowed that thing to happen. If He had really known the pain that I was going to have to go through in dealing with this, then He would have made a dif- ferent decision.
We want to reach into our pocket and pull out our red ag and yell,“God,you missed this one! You blew it. Review it, because you’re obviously wrong.” It is during those times that we need to remember that God often does some of His best work in the dark. He is also often the nearest when He seems the furthest away. It is during those times that our faith needs to carry us through. Because it is in those times that God is often waiting to see what we are going to do.
For His Kingdom, Tony Evans
“We want to reach into our pocket and pull out our red ag and yell, “God, you missed this one! You blew it. Review it, because you’re obviously wrong.”
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