Due to Circmstances Beyond Our Control

Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control… Few things make us feel as helpless as car trouble. A couple of weeks ago my friend and I broke down on the side of the highway. We had no credit card we could whip out and have people rushing to our rescue. God is a good God and we had someone stop and help us push it off the road and even pay for a 30 mile tow. So then what? Just whip out the magic credit card and call the mechanic, right? Oh, yeah. No magic credit card. Once I got a hold of the mechanic, he turned out to be in the hospital for surgery to repair a gash to his leg. I have had to do one of my least favorite things in the world. ASK FOR HELP!!. Lord, how I hate that. I would love to tell you that I am such a good Christian I have been too busy praising the Lord to fret. I would be lying though, and leaving out the part where I cry bitter tears as I walk and snarl when God reminds me of verses like Psalms 46:10. Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations and exalted in the earth. At the very end of my rope, I was talking to someone who “just happened” to come in where I was working. He was telling me about totaling his truck on the way to church when he swerved to miss a feral hog. I said that I did not know what I was going to do about my situation and he told me that the person who is helping him was going to be there in about 5 minutes and he would have him talk to me. I talked to him and he said he would go out to where the car was and diagnose it. Then he would help me figure out the next steps. (Much better than people diagnosing it from 30 mile away.) I got my key out of my purse and handed it to him. He left with the key and went to check on the car. I admit that it was hard to hand over the key. I was had to relinquish control to get help. If I had said, go look and see what’s wrong with my car without giving him the power and the authority to do it, I would still be looking for help instead of waiting on an answer. The car is not the only situation in my life that I am powerless over right now. It is not the only situation that other people are trying to diagnose and tell me how to fix. I know I need God’s help but if I am going to get it I have to ask him to look at my problem and help me with it. Then I have to give relinquish my control over the situation. I have to be still and not go running after the suggestions that other people make. Sometimes they give great advice and sometimes their advice makes the situation worse. I have to accept that God is both able and willing to help me. Then just like I have to do in the natural, I have to wait. I DO NOT LIKE IT! I can choose my attitude while I wait. I can choose to trust and I can choose to rejoice. Let’s look at all of Psalms 46 TO THE CHOIRMASTER. OF THE SONS OF KORAH. ACCORDING TO ALAMOTH. A SONG. 1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. 2 Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, 3 though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah 4 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High. 5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns. 6 The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts. 7 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah 8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, how he has brought desolations on the earth. 9 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear; the burns the chariots with fire. 10 “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!” 11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah It sounds like God is capable of handling our problems. Turn loose of the death grip of the keys to your life and let’s trust him this week.