If you have seen the old movie, "The Money Pit", this phrase will have special meaning to you. For those who haven't viewed this movie, a young couple buys their dream house, only to find that it turns into more of a nightmare. The "two weeks" was the ongoing excuse the contractor gave whenever he was asked about how much longer it would be until completion. The farther the movie goes into the process of extensive and extended remodeling process the more you see that life is far more complicated than we sometimes wish it were. Two weeks. Two weeks.

  Ever feel that way? That you signed on for the easy remodel and somehow just about the time you think you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, somebody steals the lightbulb?  Been there, done that? We all have. Life has a way of presenting its turns and twists to us in a manner that the road ahead looks straight. We wish for straight, easy days, but that is just not reality it is? “Two weeks. Two weeks.”

  In the movie, every time the main characters turn around the cost of the work is going up more. Sound just like our current gasoline price crunch? And throughout the process the stress and pressure causes their relationship to crumble, a lot like the house around them.  Everything always costs more and takes longer than it should. “Two weeks. Two weeks.”

  A question - Is it the unknown cost of the process that is the real cause of the stress? Or is it the unknown aspect of when things will finally be completed and return to normal? Why do we struggle so hard against the unknown time tables of life? I think there is a great lesson for us all in this movie. It is not the cost of the remodel that crushes near as much as the unrelenting and unending process of never being done. Why is it that when we hear "two weeks" it drives us nuts? It really makes us nuts when we see that God is behind the "Two weeks. Two weeks.”

   I think we all long for too great a degree of control over our lives, far greater than God ever intended for us to have. The book of James points our hearts to see that it is God who has our timetables and destiny in his hands; "What you ought to say is, "If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that." We long for too much control over our lives and our days. We get too independent. It may be our right as Americans, but as followers of Jesus Christ, we are to be fully dependent on the God who holds our lives and days in His hand. So when we get too big for our britches, God sends "Two weeks. Two weeks“  to remind us that our plans need to line up with His divine will for us as His children...
 
   The next time you're faced with “Two weeks. Two weeks ", slow down and ask God, "Am I getting ahead of your plans, your will, your desire for my life? Ask him to give you a heart and will that is more dependent on Him. Let Him take the lead, our job is to follow His lead. You might just be surprised at how the stress, worry and pressures of life are diminished when we let God lead and we willingly follow….