Things Aren’t What They Seem

A few weeks ago I was awoken in the middle of the night by a weird sound. It was like a scurrying sound. Something was in my bedroom, scurrying around. Was it an animal? What was making that sound? It was a frantic sound. It was all over the place. I laid there in my bed, trying to figure out what it was. It honestly sounded like something small was running around my bedroom.

I got scared. Was that a demon? Was a demon running around my room trying to freak me out? I laid there for a long time, listening and getting more frightened by the minute. I prayed it my head for whatever it was to go away. I prayed for protection from the Lord.

I finally gave in and woke up my husband. I didn’t want to fight this thing alone. I needed back up. I woke him up out of a dead sleep and told him he needed to turn the light on, something was in our room. He was half asleep and told me just to go back to sleep. But I couldn’t. I couldn’t sleep while whatever it was, was making that loud scurrying noise.

Suddenly, my husband got up to go to the bathroom. I begged him to turn the light on, on his way out. He obliged me and I lay there in the bed, afraid to look at the foot of the bed, afraid of what I might see. There was nothing at the foot of my bed. I heard the noise again, then looked up at the ceiling. Something just flew up towards the ceiling and was bouncing off the ceiling making a weird buzzing sound as its wings hit the ceiling. It was a moth! A great big moth, trying to escape our room and bouncing off the ceiling. I breathed a sigh of relief and went to go get a can of raid to kill the thing. I managed to kill it with a couple of sprays of the raid.

How in the world did something that big get in our bedroom? Our window was open, but we have a screen on it. A moth that big couldn’t have possible gotten in through the window. Now I wondered how the thing got in.

I went back to sleep, relieved that I didn’t have a demon running around the foot of my bed. But I was a little troubled, as to how something that big got into my bedroom?

Things aren’t always what they seem. Problems we face in life, may seem bigger or more insidious than they really are. We may think it’s the end of the world, but it’s not. We, as believers, have God on our side, watching out for us. He says He will protect us. He will never leave us or forsake us. He is the friend who is closer than a brother.

I know, a lot of times, my first reaction to a problem is to panic. But I really shouldn’t do that. There’s never a time, when God is going to turn His back on me. He promises He won’t and I need to trust in that promise. I have His word on it.

For all of us who are believers, we can’t get taken up with the problems we face. Things aren’t what they seem. God is greater than any problem we face. We need to remember that God will never leave us or forsake us. God is never going to apologize to us for forgetting us. He’ll never forget us. He’ll never leave us. He’ll never forsake us.

And if you hear a loud buzzing sound in your bedroom at night, it’s most likely not a demon, but a giant moth trying to escape.