1992 Ford Pick Up

About a year ago my husband and I started praying for a pick up truck, we needed one to haul fire wood and it seems like throughout the spring and summer we always know someone who is moving. About six months into praying for one our Pastor told us that our truck was going to be white with red, white for the purity of Christ and red for His blood. Of course EVERY red and white truck I saw was "the truck"; I made phone calls told people what we needed it for and we never ended up with the truck...I never talked to Jim before I made any of these phone calls and couldn't understand why the Lord was not providing our truck! After all, I was praying, I was out looking, I was making the phone calls and I was attempting to control the blessing! A couple of months ago my husband was on his way home from work and he told me that for the past nine months he had been passing a 1992 Ford pick up that was grey that had had a For Sale sign in the window however, the sign had just been taken out. To my dismay I said to him "Why don't you pray about it"; two days later he stopped and looked at the truck, the price was right, it was still for sale, had minimal things wrong with it and the owner was willing to even come down in price without him asking; the only problem was the truck was, yep you know it. It was grey, not white and red as our Pastor (who has a gift to know what is from him and what is from the Holy Spirit). Jim and I couldn't understand, we thought maybe it was a test of obedience. The following day Jim met with the man and was talking with him and just when he went to tell him that he was going to spend more time praying about it, he put his hand down on "our" truck and noticed a red and white pin stripe. We purchased the truck the following Monday.

The Israelites could not recognize the Savior when He came because they were looking for a King that would come and set up his kingdom just as so many of the Kings in the OT did; they were not able to see the incredible blessing the Lord had wished to bestow upon them. Now, I am not in any what saying that the blessing of our truck is the same as the blessing of our Savior Jesus Christ, the two do not compare. I think we can learn from this by letting go of expecting God to bless us with what we perceive we should have and be open to seeing the real blessing behind it, I don't know if that makes any sense. I know that the blessing was not the truck by any means; the blessing was the answer to yet another prayer.