Solving the Mystery.....

What does it mean when God says, He understand you. The Lord spoke to me and said, "I understand your hardships and struggles..." I pondered this for several days and kept thinking what does it mean when God tells you something that is very obvious? We know that He is all
knowing....Omniscient.

I must admit however, that I was certainly comforted by the fact that God had assured me that he understood but still I was perplexed.

It's like when the Lord God spoke to Adam in the Garden of Eden and said, "Where art thou?"(Gen 3;9)
God knew exactly where Adam was from every perspective....geographically, spiritually, cognitively...etc. Yet He still asked him. God wanted Adam to search himself to find out where he was....from every perspective.

Regarding me, He wants me to seek Him, the Omniscient One so that I may thoroughly understand my hardships and my struggles.......from every aspect.

What's wrong with folks?.....

I mean I would really like to know the answer to that question... I went out tonight for a drive and decided to stop at Safeway to get some ice cream. Actually I had the taste for a milkshake but after going through a couple of fastfood drivethru windows and being told the "shake machine wasn't working this evening"...I decided to make my own.

Anway, I get my items and make my way to the checkout line, only to discover whose line it was. The woman(who I'm tempted to call Foodzilla..but I won't) whose line I vowed to NEVA get in again. This woman is full of attitude. No, she's downright abusive! She always has this look on her face like you woke her up and came to her house to beg for food and now you are asking her to bag up the food.

There were two woman in front of me, with lots of food in their carts....but on the counter there are two plums, a yellow onion, a gallon of vinegar and a watermelon. The woman directly in front of me is trying to figure out whose food is rolling around on the counter toward the cashier. She looks towards me and I shook my head no and then she looks toward the cashier. The cashier snaps at the woman and says, "JUST PUT THAT STUFF IN A BASKET!! I DON'T KNOW WHO IT BELONGS TO!!" still acting like we are in her kitchen.

The woman ahead of me, sheepishly backed her cart out of the aisle, leaving the unclaimed items rolling down the counter. She looked at me nervously and said, "You can go ahead." Now the items are in front of me. There's a young guy....who usually bags the groceries sitting on the counter,flipping through a magazine watching all this..

I kind chuckled to myself as I realized that these food items had been rolling and rolling a long time...the plums, onion and watermelon started rolling backwards. I thought, even the food doesn't want to deal with Foodzil....I mean the cashier.

Another woman was standing behind me...she had been standing there for a while, watching. The cashier sighed heavily and started snatching the items off the counter and put them in a return basket. The woman behind me says, "Oh! those are my things!" The cashier turn around with fire in her eyes and hissed through clinched teeth, "Dag! she does this every night!"

The lady behind me laughed nervously and said, "YUP!" Then looks at me and says, "She had some other customers and I needed a few more things so I just left my stuff here to go get some other stuff"