ONE WISH - A MountainWIngs Moment - By James Bonner

One Wish . . .
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Recently I was talking to my brother about the one wish God granted King Solomon in the Bible.

God told Solomon that he could have anything he wanted just by asking, but he had only ONE wish.

My brother and I discussed with each other what that one wish would be if we were allowed one.

Everything we came up with had some problem.

We knew that money and power were not the thing to ask for because the rich fill the office of psychiatrists and many take pills every day for depression.  Money just wasn't the answer.

We knew that revenge upon someone for something they did was not a good choice because what goes around comes around.

So we started thinking about higher things like knowledge and wisdom.

We thought about it.

We had studied religion, science, business and health all of our lives and there was a list of things that we knew we should be doing but weren't.  We needed greater discipline more than greater knowledge and wisdom.

I said, "Maybe what we need is the ability to program ourselves like computers to do those things that we know are right."  When we thought about this request it brought to mind a robot, for it does only what it is programmed to do but it has no will to do otherwise and experiences neither pain nor joy.

Then we discussed spiritual gifts.

"What about the gift of prophecy?" I asked.  This would help people know what path to take in life.  Then we thought, if a man could see the future of anyone's life without error, that man would have no privacy.  Everywhere he went people would be trying to find him, even at three in morning his phone would ring with
people asking the question, "Can you see if my child is coming back home tonight?"

Even the ability to raise the dead has problems.  Imagine if any corpse you prayed over would miraculously resuscitate to life. Anytime someone died people would call you or hunt you down for you to come and bring their loved one back to them.

Or what about just the ability to heal the sick without fail? If you had this, your peace would be lost to lines miles long from one hospital to the next waiting on a touch from you.

The answer to one simple wish contains a lot of information about the asker.  It tells a lot about where you are and where you are going.  After we discussed it long enough, we realized we had already been blessed with everything we needed.  That which we didn't have, we had the ability to get.

The revelation that came to us was that what people really want the most is that which they spend most of their time trying to get.

If you only had one wish, what would you ask for?

What do you spend most of your time trying to get now?


~A MountainWings Original by James Bronner~