OAKS

So stable and dependable. The image of strength. Yet, something that is alive. Not made of stone.

And the other thing we know about oaks is they don't live forever. We don't always enjoy that part.

So we still like the idea of something that will be permanent. Whether we see the person as an oak in our life or some system.

It is the concept of what we will know will be helpful tomorrow. It can give shade or aid in some other way.

Still, life plots along in the pattern shaped before us. Through the means we always prefer to define by our desires.

Now the problem is when we take time to include everything in our idea of oaks, but the Lord. It happens.

And even more so when we think we are trusting Him. How amazing that can be. Yet so true.

Oh one can quote the scriptures. Be so bold as to teach scriptural truths, but still put one's trust in one's own abilities.

It just depends on the nature of what we have to put our faith in. Seeing God as able to handle anything miraculous.

Yet, He is also the Lord of the ordinary. We might be inclined to think it isn't good to bother Him over small things.

Not that we have to lift up a prayer for strength about something such as taking out the trash, still it is just as important to include Him in our daily thoughts. Which is some times very hard to do.

But that is what matters too. For God is sensitive to our every need. Just in terms of what is best for us.

And that is not always according to how we view it. Sometimes we think that something is truly critical that isn't.

Only when we truly are willing to listen in the small ways do we see the Lord as well in the big things. And sometimes that is the hardest part.

But we can learn to move ahead when we want to. Still not always the way we want. This part is where we have to listen more with our hearts than our heads.