One evening recently I was driving with my kids to keep an appointment. We where driving in an area in which I had never been before. They hadn’t eaten dinner yet and we didn’t have much more than a few minutes to spare if we were to keep our appointment. I had planned that we would find a McDonald’s, hit the drive-through and be on our way. Everyone would be happy and an important appointment would be kept.
And I was good. Better than I am sometimes: I didn’t worry about finding a McDonald’s; I simply asked God from the outset to find us one. No worries.
But here we were, twenty minutes into our thirty minute trip and no fast food, certainly no McDonald’s. And a worry appeared. “What if God doesn’t show us a place to get some food?” I thought. And then my very next thought: “Well, then I’ll have to get off this highway and find us some food.”
WHAT?? WHAT?? If God doesn’t provide, I will?? Have I no understanding of God?? Do I have such a highly exalted view of myself that I believe I can succeed when God fails??
Wow. I'm thankful that at least I recognized the craziness of my thinking. May I always remember that, if God doesn’t answer my prayer the way I expect or like Him to, it’s definitely because He has something better in mind.
(P.S. God did find us food (surprise, surprise!) but it wasn't McDonald's. So, in addition to this being a lesson for me, it also became a teachable moment with my son – who I discovered thought that anything other than McDonald's is completely unacceptable.)
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