But Always By Him

 

It may be that the LORD

will work for us,

for nothing can

   hinder the LORD

from saving by many

        or by few.

          1 Samuel 14. 6

(Praying always prevails

        over the odds.

What if we pray?

      What if we don't?

When we seek Him

   --and not just

     a plastic-wrapped answer--

God brings us through

an unseen way,

   a hidden passage,

through the familiar

    or the impossible.

God empowers us to see

this situation differently

      even in unlikely places.

By many or by few,

   but always by Him.)

O LORD,

Forgive us for not

       coming sooner

before our fears and burdens

  super-sized into 

        what is overwhelming.

You overcome

       what overwhelms us.

You may or may not swoop down

         to deliver us from,

but You deliver us through

           by Your strength

    and for Your purposes.

This struggle may not be

           about ourselves,

but for the salvation of others.

Nothing can hinder

            Your ways in this.

Help us to trust You in it

   for well-being

  and for Your glory.