Trusting in Horses

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Psalm 20:7, "Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God."

Isaiah 31:1, "Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in the multitude of their chariots and in the great strength of their horsemen, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel, or seek help from the Lord."

I stopped to pray for my brother who had expressed some specific issues. While in prayer, my prayer changed. Instead of asking that God should make certain things happen, I realized that God wants to make it happen His way. I had been thinking in terms of the right people, with right plan, come together in the right way. I was trusting in horses. When things happen according to the laws of this world, it is all that is expected by believers and unbelievers alike. What I needed to ask is for something that is beyond our means. Beyond what is within our natural resources.

 Ephesians 3:20, "Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,"

God wants the right people, the right plan, in the right time to fail. HE wants it all to fail so that HE can do it when all seems lost. Much of our lives are simply (it seems) for usual things to happen in the usual way. In order for God to show Himself great, everything needs to fall apart. HE isn't needed if the disease just "goes away". HE isn't needed if the trip goes according to plan. HE isn't needed of the supply and/or means just shows up.

HE wants to be the ONLY way that a test is resolved!

I have been working on our "Tiny House" for over a year and a half. There have been times that HE supplied things in a way or time that I could not have arranged with a thousand phone calls asking for a thousand favors. Yet, in the doing of these 18 plus months I have relied on what minimal stamina I had to do the labor. Miriam and I were on an errand the other day, when we were taken by the thought, "Could God send a team that could come in and make substantial or all of the labor required?" We have collected materials for nearly the whole project. All it needs is assembly. Most of the parts are repurposed garnered for free or nearly so.

It's just that I can only labor 2-6 hours a week. My energy issues are random. Some weeks I can get in a couple hours a couple of days or so. Other weeks pass without any work getting done. God has supplied a plumber/electrician for when those aspects arrive, but those are still a ways off. If I finish the job (over the next 2-3 years) I will be able to say God provided stuff, but I slowly got the job done my self.

So as I pray for my brother to see the Hand of God, I (actually Miriam and I) am seeking the Hand of God as well. Pray with us not that it all works out but that God will be glorified, even if the desires fail. God's best may be the journey, not the destination. May our hearts be able to rejoice in all things.

Job 1:21, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart.
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.”