The Bumps on the Road to Glory
I wish one of us five kids on one bike would have seen that bump sign before we started down that hill. But no one saw it. If just one of us would have seen it, I wouldn't be wearing this bump on my head today.
I was five years old and extra short for my age. I was in the basket up front. The impact to my head was so hard that doctors discovered it caused a bone to grow abnormally on the right side above my eye. With the bad news came another shocker when I was seven. New x-rays showed a brain tumor. I was sent to a brain specialist in Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA.
Mercy Hospital is a Catholic Hospital. My mother had all the nuns and priests praying for me. All I can tell you is the morning of my tumor surgery, my mother came into my hospital room all excited. She said, "Bill, they just took another set of x-rays to make sure they know how to take the tumor out, but they can't find it. It's gone!"
I learned early in life to never tell God who He can't use to bless us, for there are hungry hearts in every church and denomination who we will need more in the days to come. The fatal blow to that tumor came two years earlier when my mother began to tell everybody, "This is my little preacher!"
Years later, the Lord showed me her spoken prophetic word over my life, "This is my little preacher!" ate the tumor alive like a spiritual pack man, for it had come to steal God's purpose for my life. They then did surgery to scrape the bone away on my head as much as they could, but it still marks my life to this day.
God Blessed the Bump in the Road
Have you ever wished that you could go back one day in your life and live it over? You guessed it. That would be the one day for me. I would have done anything but take a bike ride. But as I am getting older, with years of wisdom from the school of hard knocks, I have learned to think different. I don't think I would change a thing. For God blessed the bump in the road that led me straight to Jesus when I was five years old.
Looking back, it wasn't the easy road that blessed my life. It was the broken road that blessed me. What about you?
What Bumps Have Taught Me...
* Often before a miracle, there's dead silence.
* If you are believing for healing or a miracle, be careful who you hang out with. You better find three or four crazy people who believe, "All things are possible!"
* When you get a word from God concerning an upcoming promotion, you may want to consider that God's way up is down.
