It
Started with Trouser Socks
We
often think of great faith as something that happens spontaneously so that we
can be used for a miracle or healing. However, the greatest faith of all, and
the most effective, is to live day by day trusting Him. It is trusting in Him
so much, that we look at every problem as an opportunity to see His work in our
life. Rick Joyner
Life is funny isn’t it? If you look at it from a heavenly
perspective, the things we worry about don’t always happen and the things we
never thought of do. I have come to the
conclusion that in this world if I wait long enough something interesting will
happen eventually.
Last night I was going to the store to buy trouser
socks. So yesterday I spent 15 minutes trying to locate two matching trouser
socks. Have you noticed that when your
trouser socks get to the laundry room they break up? It’s like they have a great relationship in
the package, but once they hit the laundry room the relationship is over and
one of them disappears never to be found again.
I personally think they met up with a towel or sheet and now they are
static clinging somewhere together.
I left work and my “Green Machine” was running great
at that point. I had to stop at Home
Depot for light bulbs. So I go into Home
Depot, come out put the key in the ignition and click. Nothing, notta, no go. So as most wives do I called my husband. He tells me to look behind the seat for the
wrench and go tap the battery cables.
So I open the hood and one of the Green Machine’s
battery cables is corroded. So I decide
to go back into Home Depot to buy a Coke.
Not because I am thirsty but I will pour it on my battery cables to
clean them. Since my Green Machine
didn’t stop running at the auto parts store, I used what was available.
As a side note I did go into Home Depot at my
husband’s suggestion to ask them if they sell the spray to remove acid and the
two extremely young clerks looked at me like I had grown two heads. When I saw the deer in the headlight looks
they gave each other I moved on to plan B.
Do you sell Coke here? The young
girl’s face lit up. “Oh, yes we do, over
in the case behind the register.” I am
not sure what they are teaching kids these days in school but they are missing
out on the important stuff.
I get back to the Green Machine and pour the Coke on
the cables. It starts foaming and
cleaning the cables immediately. I get
back in the car and try to start it.
Nothing. So I call my husband and
he tells me he is on his way. To make
this extremely long story shorter, he drives up, gets out of his truck, pops
the hood, taps each of the cables with a wrench and the Green Machine starts
right up.
What is the moral of this story? I didn’t get my trouser socks, Coke will eat
the acid off your battery cables in a pinch and things are going to happen in
life that will frustrate you and make you ask yourself “Why am I here?” The answer is we are here for God’s purpose. That’s it.
It’s not some complicated formula that we need a Master’s degree in
rocket science to figure out. We are His
to be used for His purpose. Make the
most of every circumstance that comes your way and use it for His Glory.
Prayer
for the Day:
Heavenly Father, I praise You for the challenges in my life because they show
me glimpses of You. There is a great
peace that comes over me when I leave it up to You to work out the details of
my simple life. I love you Father.
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