COAT HANGER
Written
by Luz Leigh – 17 Jan 2008
The young lady
seemed perplexed, confused, in need of
assistance. I would say the young blonde, but that
would be profiling and profiling is politically
incorrect these days. She was standing by her car,
coat hanger in hand, trying to push it into the
groove between the glass and the side of the
driver’s door to unlock the door. I noticed there
was shattered glass on the ground near the back
door and the window had been broken out. This is
odd, I thought to myself. Why doesn’t she just
reach in and open the door through the broken
window? This was an older model car that I was
sure did not have the new locking devise that
would prevent the doors from being unlocked except
by the control on the driver’s door. Seeing that
she was making little progress trying to unlock
the front door with the coat hanger, I ventured
the question to her.
“Ugh, excuse me,
ma’am, but seeing as how the back window has been
broken out, why don’t you just reach in there and
open the door?” Rolling her eyes, she said….”I
don’t want in the back seat. I want my purse from
the front seat.” Well, duh. No comment.
Does this
incident not remind us of ourselves at times? We
get so focused on ONE thing that we do not see any
way to attain our goal but by the limited manner
our earthly mind sets forth.
Before I walked away
from the young woman, I just had to ask. “Where
did you get the coat
hanger?” Looking at me with those big blue eyes,
innocent as a little child, she said “In the back
seat of the car. I always carry one just in case I
need to get in there.” Wow. What logic.
But then think
on this. We have the “key” that will unlock the
door, that being God’s Holy Word. But how many
times do we “shatter a window” to get to a “coat
hanger” that might help us when all we need to do
is open the door that would give us access to all
that we need? I know that was a long sentence, but
could think how to break it down.
The coat hanger
is when we depend on others to explain His Word to
us when we could discern for ourselves. I’m not
saying we should not listen to the Lord’s
ministers and those who teach His Word; just that
we could use the key ourselves to receive what He
has for us to hear and feel. So each day, take the
Key and unlock the door to His teachings.
