Only He Can!

Garth Heckman

The David Alliance

TDAgiantSlayer@Gmail.com 

 

My dog is huge!!

 

Vacation… not a cruise guy. 

My wife had not packed enough medication, then lost other medication, I got food poisoning for 2 days, our Flight canceled 9 times… just the flight to get to Chicago… but wait there’s more… it was only to fly us to Philadelphia… which was canceled another 5 times, only to take us to Baltimore… and then to Minnesapolis….

Anyway after sitting in the airport for 18 hours with my wife… we decided if we do get to Chicago we will just drive home… and that is what we did. So I sit here tonight doing tomorrows podcast \ which you are hearing today… because I have not been up for 32 hours and I am about to drop over… 

How do I stay up after being sick, and having to drive at night with no sleep for almost a day…

Simple: 2 coffees, 2 Red Bulls, one huge bottle of water and a tin of Chew… and some great music… my choice for this ride home was random music from the 80’s hair metal collection from obscure bands…. 

BTW I am starting to post more music on my social media sites… and My publisher and my graphic designer just topped off my book, so this week I have to get the audio portion recorded and then we set the world on fire for Jesus -

Ok, one thing I want to quickly cover today that is sooo apparent after being on a ship for 7 days and in an airport for almost 24 hours straight… is this… YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE BECAUSE OF: 

  -  A.  Your family, B. Your friends and C. Your choices.Yes God changes us and he can do radical things but wether on this side of the cross or the other side… we still have to choose.

You know you want a really nice table made out of dark Cherry wood. Well guess what God will grow the tree, but you will have to work, learn and sacrifice time for it to happen.

To many people are in the world today complaining about God not giving them a table… when they do not realize “you get no table without a tree… and you get no tree without God”. You can’t make a tree… oh you say I can plant it, water it, fertilize it… But that still doesn’t make it grow and sure as heck does not protect it or assure it will grow. That is all up to God. But once that tree is grown… well well well you are just a few steps away from a table.

 

What do you want in life? Now before you start listing goals… and how to’s and a year template of how to achieve these things… first it would be wise to ask God to show you what only he can do in these situations before you try to do everything yourself. 

Example: I want a better relationship with my spouse… now it would be easy to track all the things you could do… spend time with her, take her to shows, movies, dinner, tell her you love her, write her letters and notes, spend time with her family, do special things for her and buy things for her…

But wait thats not the tree… what is the only thing that God can do that you can’t? Open up your wife’s heart to you. Soften her heart and countenance, help her forgive and trust again. 

See what happens is many times in our best plans we leave God out of the picture. But when we start the other way around we realize just how much we need him… how very much he must guide us, give us grace and patience, forever love while waiting on our wives to awaken… why is this so important? Simple because it invites God into our daily lives and our daily dealings. It creates in us a mindset of thankfulness and utter trust in him… for what only he can do! If you are like me I start to focus more on what only he can do rather than all I think I can do. What I can do is important and needed - the choices are a must… but what only God can do is vital… mandatory and completely out of our hands.