Earlier this week I was expecting a delivery from UPS. I was using the internet tracking page and saw that it was clocked into Trinidad at 7:45am on Tuesday. Now I have had very good experience with service so I was not going to worry. Most of the day went fine but by 4:45pm I started to worry. I have said it before, Trinidad is not the edge of the universe but we can see it from here.
What if my expensive school supplies were accidently delivered somewhere else (strange how stuff is expensive if you buy, but worthless if you try to sell). As I sat there reading some schoolwork, a thought crossed my mind from the Crown studies. EVERYTHING belongs to God. So I stopped to pray, "Lord what I have is Yours, and so is the package that hasn't arrived, the debt is Yours, take care of it ".
I got up from the kitchen table where I was doing my studying and went to the cupboard to get a glass for a drink. At that moment I looked out the window and saw the UPS truck drive up. It had literally been less than two minutes since I had prayed giving it to Him.
"Oh ye of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?" Matt 14:31
Currently, in the movies there is a popular superhero, IRONMAN. The lead character is filthy rich and makes himself a suit of armor from high-tech metal. He gets shot at but the suit only gets damaged, he himself is not injured.
I was reading in Proverbs 30 verse 5 that "(God) is a shield unto them that put their trust in Him". This is repeated in Psalm 18:30, 84:11 and 115:9-11.
It doesn't say God gives me a shield, or makes a shield or powers up a shield, or tells me where to hide.
GOD IS MY SHIELD
My shield will never lose power, there is no power that can rise against it, there is no power that can overcome it, no technology to supersede it.
Ironman, Batman, the Green Hornet, the X-Men, the Incredible Hulk, all had weaknesses. Even Superman had kryptonite.
My enemy knows that I am weak, but my SHIELD is impenetrable, no gaps, weak spots or ever need batteries. The only thing to go wrong is for me to doubt. God has promised to never leave or forsake me. Having done all to stand let us stand (Eph.6:13), If God be for us who can be against us? (Rom.8:31).
GO AHEAD, MAKE MY DAY, Thank you Lord. Superheroes? Phooey!
Thursday, October 16, 2008
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