To know what hindsight will show me — sometime in the future.
Some people say that Prayer is a two-way communication with God. Others postulate that prayer is a valuable method of meditation because either God does not speak or because God does not exist. I am not going to debate this topic, but rather let me state that prayer is a valuable part of my daily existence.
I am sure that I am not the only person who has concerns about immediate finances and I would hope that I am not the only person who has turned to God for support with these concerns. As I don’t have a radio in my car, my conversations often begin in first gear and end with the parking break when I pull into the driveway. There was a Saturday Night Live Skit making the email rounds the other day portraying Jesus visiting the Denver Bronco’s – I hope my prayers are better received than those in the skit… I mention all of this because my drive home yesterday changed my outlook on the financial struggling I am going through.
You see, I know that God has power to resolve my financial worries. I know that there are undiscovered treasures throughout this world and I know that there are lost and misplaced resources just waiting to be claimed. A friend of mine found many hundreds of thousands of dollars of cocaine hidden in some copper wire he purchased – it was a drug shipment that was lost. Since that time I have been ‘looking’ for the shipment of cash going the other way; it seems to reason that it is just as likely for a shipment of drugs to be lost as a shipment of cash and there is no doubt but that I would know what to do with an untraceable shipment of drug money that fell into my lap.
I am not looking for much – just enough that I can get the rocks on my chimney stuck back on properly. It seems a worthy cause and it seems like it might even be in the will of God to help me provide a safe home for my kids. The interesting thing is that I suddenly felt strongly as if it was because of my children that I would not be helped: I got the feeling that I was trusted and that I was worthy, but that such a windfall would teach my children an incorrect principle. They must learn through watching me that money comes from hard work and sacrifice or they will learn it not at all.
Can you imagine how comforting this is to me? To know that God is aware and that God has ordained these problems in order that my children may learn! Hindsight may be 20/20 but prayer has given me the ability to see that in the future I will be able to look back and recognize these troubles as worthwhile.
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One Man
