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When Fools Rush In



I watched a movie (several times actually) called "Fools Rush In". Normally I don't plug a movie. And I have to say I'm not an Elvis fan even though I happen to like that particular song. I will say however that this is what the Lord taught me from watching this particular movie. Strangely the word that seems to have particular emphasis is not fools, but WHEN. Hence the first line, timing is everything!

In fact my watching this movie "Fools Rush In", happens to be a perfect illustration itself of the divine operating in my life and the emphasis of When. I looked at the description of the story, intellectualized it and decided I wouldn't like it. Then my wife picked it up and rented it. Now I'm very glad she did.



When Fools Rush In

Timing is everything If you spend all your time intellectualizing Reason will lead you astray If you spend all your time emotionalizing Passion will lead you astray This is man's timing
Who are we to presume that we know better than love It isn't our faith that betrays us It is our fear We don't trust love You will never know love unless you surrender to it
Wise men say only fools rush in But they don't know the wisdom of love They only know their own intellect and emotions They have some emotional and intellectual ideas of love They only know man's timing
But truly it is a wiser man who knows he doesn't know Who realizes something greater than himself Who watches the path of his life for the way he should go This man knows love This man knows God's timing The world may call him a fool
He knows that when this kind of fool rushes in God is with him Because he is on God's time And God is transforming him into the likeness of Christ Not just making him a good and moral person
I am not who I was yesterday Tomorrow I will be different still The longer I walk with the Son of God The more like Him I become
When you get lost God provides signs for you to find your way Watch for them Follow them When fools follow the hand of love and rush in That's God's timing And it's wonderful


N Rocky Chambers

21 April 1999
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