“They Lost My Reservation”

Yesterday as one of my friends tried to check in to the hotel the clerk looked him up on the system and found that he did not have a reservation. Somehow in the transition from the former hotel to the new hotel, his reservation didn’t get moved over. He had driven a lot of miles and was tired and now he didn’t have a reservation.

After much debate and the hotel trying to work something out, the only response they could muster up was, “I’m sorry…we are sold out of rooms!” Although it was not his fault and although he did not do anything wrong, he still had no reservation and had no room. He had come a long way only to find out that he had no place to reside.

Life is like that. We often times pick the place we want to be in and we pick the road we want to travel. We think that when we get to the destination that we desire that there will be room for us. I have found out that the world is a selfish and nasty place. It is a “get mine and I’ll take yours too type of mentality”. We think we want to choose where we will stay only to find out that when we get there we are either not good enough or qualified enough to make the cut. This world looks like it has what we need, but I have come to the conclusion that I’ll take the Kingdom of God over anything that this world has to offer. Too many people are going to look for the world to save them but the response will be, “I’m sorry…we have no more rooms!”

Well, I know you are wondering what happened to my friend and if he is my friend then did I let him stay with me. I am that type of friend that I would not have left him out with no place to stay. But thanks be unto God…he decided to call the former hotel and they told him, “We still have your original reservation!” (Insert shout). All he had to do was leave go across the street and he had his original reservation!

The lesson in this experience is that God keeps our original reservation. We often times look for bigger, better and more exciting places to be other than in the Kingdom with God. We tend to walk away from our Father like the prodigal son because we want to live the life we choose to live rather than staying where we are. But when this old world turns us down…we have a Father that will allow us to come back to our original reservation! With open arms and with a smile on his face!

God Bless,

Michael O. Oyedokun II