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RUBBER DUCKIES IN THE FRONT ROW

I got engrossed in my book last night while Maddy was taking a long bubble bath. I looked up in time to see her doing a magic trick for the four rubber duckies she had lined up on the tub surround.

First, she filled the palms of her hands with suds, and showed the “audience.” They grinned their approval.

Then, she doused her hands in the water, and lifted them again -- this time, magically clean.

The ducky audience couldn’t take their eyes away. They were pinned to their seats. They grinned their approval once again. They thought her trick was just . . . ducky.

How come I’ve never had an easy-to-please audience like that?

Then again, why would I want one?

It struck me that that’s why God made us with free will, free choice, and the ability to slip into sin just as easily as Maddy’s pink little whirling dervish body slipped out of my hands when I tried to shampoo.

It’s because we’re REAL . . . just like He is.

God doesn’t want to do His stuff for an audience that’s grinning, senseless and optionless, even though cute. The point is that we CAN turn away from Him -- like the partial-birth abortion crowd and the gay marriage crowd.

Since the rest of us DON’T turn away, it makes what God is doing all the more enjoyable for both Him and us.

You’ve got to be QUACKED to turn away from an act like that.

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Prayer request: A friend’s cousin named Jenny is having surgery today at 10 a.m. She has a cyst and a large lymph node in her uterus. She has not been in good health for a long time; this is just one more thing. Father, through this trial, draw Jenny and her family closer to You. Reward their perseverance, because that’s one of Your favorite qualities. Grant her complete healing and restored health. (Ephesians 6:18)