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When I'm the answer to my prayer
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Tuesday, May, 25, 2010
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by John Fischer
I'm sure many of you have heard the joke about the guy who drowns and arrives in heaven complaining about how God never answered his prayer for help, when, in fact, God had sent him help three different times, but he missed each one because they were natural ways out of his situation, and he was expecting something supernatural. (I'm sure one of you will bless us with the actual joke via comment. I can never remember jokes.)
Well, in the same way, I think sometimes we are the answer to our own prayers by stepping into God's provision that was there all along. I know this is often the case for me. What I'm praying for is what I'm missing because, like Gideon, I'm hiding inside my head or behind some wall from my enemies, when the angel of the Lord is right here, calling me to get up and defeat them through the power the Lord is waiting to bestow on me. (Judges 6:11-16)
So if that is you, today, I offer the following song for encouragement. It's a Jackson Browne song that I have used before in the Catch, but it's for me today, especially. Sometimes we need a kick in the butt, and it can come from anywhere.
Alive in the World
by Jackson Browne
I want to live in the world
Not inside my head
I want to live in the world
I want to stand and be counted
With the hopeful and the willing
With the open and the strong
With the voices in the darkness
Fashioning daylight out of song
And the millions of lovers
Alive in the world
I want to live in the world
Not behind some wall
I want to live in the world,
Where I will hear if another voice should call
To the prisoner inside me
To the captive of my doubt
Who among his fantasies
Harbors the dream of breaking out
And taking his chances
Alive in the world
To open my eyes and wake up alive in the world
To open my eyes and finally arrive in the world
With its beauty and its cruelty
With its heartbreak and its joy
With it constantly giving birth to life
And to forces that destroy
And the infinite power of change
Alive in the world
To open my eyes and wake up alive in the world
To open my eyes and finally arrive in the world
To open my eyes and wake up alive in the world
To open my eyes and finally arrive in the world
(c) 1996, Swallow Turn Music, ASCAP
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