Our Stops as Well as Our Steps

Ellensburg Farm Land North Cascade Mt by Dee Kamp

 

Our Stops As Well As Our Steps

Little Blue has been one of the best investments our family has made in a little pickup truck. There are a ridiculous number of miles on it, but it always starts up and is a mighty little work horse. That is until one rainy day while driving along the defroster for the windshield stopped working and the heater quit. You could run one or the other but not both! And sometimes we had many stops before going again.

“Let the morning bring me word of Your unfailing love

 for I have my trust in You.

Show me the way I should go,

for to You I lift up my soul.” Psalm 143:8 NIV

 

We took Little Blue to our local mechanic, but he was unable to help us and suggested another fellow across town. Just driving there took two people! The passenger had to wipe and clear the windshield so the driver could see enough to stay on the road. The second fellow who worked on Little Blue did so for three days and he tested everything he could think of—but to no avail. Was this end of the best truck ever?

 

Once again we were sent to another mechanic who was said he loves electrical challenges. By now we had little hope, but we took what felt like a very long trip several miles out of town out into the rural countryside. There we met a man who looked more like a farmer than a mechanic. He waved to us to follow him as we bumped across a pasture watching him swing open the doors of a cavernous old barn.

 

The farmer-mechanic fellow kept Little Blue more than week.  Though he was a bit untraditional his fine reputation preceded him and we waited in hope he could fix what no one else was able to do.  

Finally the call came and he was shouting so loud into the phone Bill had to hold it away from his ear! We wondered—can this be good or what’s really wrong? But then the words we waited long to hear came through loud and clear, “Your little blue pickup is fixed! I dug around and found one burnt out wire! Come and get your truck!”

 

Though it often takes much effort for a person to seek in many places and peoples to get something fixed up and running again— isn’t it wonderful to know that Jesus alone is the only one we need to go who gives us hope we there is something burnt out and missing in our lives? He is able to heal and restore what is broken in our lives with a single prayer of faith.  Before we go on line and google, or call family or a friend, it’s awesome to realize one call to our Lord and Savior is all we need for our stops as well as all our steps in life.  

 

“Our Stops as Well as Our Steps” by Dee Kamp, Grace Every Morning Ministries© November 17, 2014