MURPHY'S LAW

Edward A. Murphy Jr. was born in 1917. His life goal was to become an engineer. He became an  Aerospace Engineer for the Air Force; and began working in the Aerospace industry before NASA was formed. He was in charge of running test to find out how much the human body can take during "take off" in a jet or a rocket. How much G-Force can the human body take. This test involved hooking several probes to a monitor, these probes were very sensitive. Murphy ended up having to run the test, over and over again because of the sensitivity of the probes. Edward Murphy coined a phrase that has become an universal principle - "If anything can go wrong - it will."

It came to be known in the Aerospace industry as "Murphy's Law" By 1958 Murphy's Law made it's way to Webster's Dictionary. Murphy's Law is a part of life today; it has grown from one statement into several statements - let me share a few of them with you.

• Everything takes longer than you think.
• When ever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.
• When things are going well, something is going to go wrong.
• When things can't get worse, they will.
• When things appear to be going better, you've over looked something.
• Everyone has a plan that will not work.
• Once you open a can of worms, the only way to re-can them is with a bigger can.
• No matter which way you ride a bike, it will always be up hill.
• The chance of the bread falling jelly side up is in direct relationship to the cost of the carpet.
• If you fiddle with something long enough you will break it.
• The other line always moves faster.
• If it looks easy, it's tough.
• If it looks tough, it's impossible.
• The one smiling when something goes wrong, has already found someone to blame it one.
• Our own worse enemy is ourselves.

I know some people who think like this. However, there is a lot of truth to some of these statements. Even though there is a lot of truth in Murphy's Law - We should live by God's truth! He loves to work when other things can not, He loves to take the impossible and turn it into reality. We may be our own worst enemy, But God loves to take our mistakes, our failures and our weakness and work in us and through us to accomplish great things.

It's not about Us - It's about Him. It's not about Murphy's Law- It's about God's Grace!

Bro. Clayton