Scott Fisher, a thirty-eight year old truck driver in New York State, climbed into the cab of his tractor trailer rig. Mr. Fisher was hauling a stinky load. No, really it was stinky because his manifest read, ‌Manure.‍ I can imagine Mr. Fisher was not at all excited about this run down the highway spreading the aroma through out the land. However, he could not fathom just how ‌stinky‍ his trip would become. Mr. Fisher was traveling through St. Lawrence County, near the Canadian border when his day turned from bad to worse. Mr. Fisher had rolled down the windows in the cab to get a little fresh air, and through that open window a wild turkey flew into the truck. While Mr. Fisher attempted to ‌shoo‍ the bird back out the window, the truck ran off the road and hit several fence posts, then smashed in to a utility pole, and slowly rolled onto its side in a ditch. Mr. Fisher was not injured in the accident. Police say the turkey escaped, leaving only a few feathers at the scene.
Can you relate to Scott Fisher s day that was turned upside down? If we take a moment and think about it   his day is similar to our life in this world. We can be going along life s highway, minding our own business, with things going fairly smoothly, and then something flies in our window causing all kinds of mayhem. It almost comes as a shock when all along Jesus has said that we can expect things to happen. However, it is not a question that stumbling blocks will come; it is how we react to them when they fly in. He tells us that even in our temptations He will be there reaching out to us to pull us to safety. We can get ‌rolled over‍ or we can ‌overcome.‍ It all depends on us if we end up ‌stinking‍ or smelling like a rose.