Why Is This So Hard?

 

But that was to make us

rely not on ourselves

but on God

who raises the dead.

           2 Corinthians 1. 9

Why is this situation so hard?

Running into brick walls,

over cliffs,

swallowed up by potholes,

delays, reschedules,

nothing according to plan

    --at least our plans. 

Why is it so difficult?

Not that God is trying

   to give us a hard time,

but God does not want us

to think or claim that

  we did this on our own

or we are doing it alone.

We need Him

   far more than we realize.

If things were not hard,

would we even recognize

our desperate need for Him?

God never intended us

   to do it alone

or live without Him.

O LORD,

Help!  We need You.

We cry to You.

And You respond.

You specialize in impossible

     situations.

And we have one right now.

You don't just show up.

You show us the way through.

May we seek You

  and give You all the credit

  and the glory due Your name,

even in what we cannot yet see.

We are leaning

     on Your everlasting arms.