“Well, we’ve been praying for you,” the lender of our current, private mortgage said to me recently. I’d just asked about another possible scenario involving deviation from scheduled payments as we transition through buying a new home and (hopefully) selling our current place. “I’m sure God has something good in mind for you; I can’t see why he wouldn’t want that for you.” (Except what he really said was probably, “I can’t see why He wouldn’t want that for you.”)
God as my personal lobbyist, attorney, and house boy? Sign him (err, Him) up! Sweet!
Now, of course I would be grateful for any divine intervention leading to personal financial, geographical, and relational success (and a cheap electric car), and certainly I am not suggesting that God is incapable such miraculous action, seeing as how God can probably do just about anything, except maybe make a stone too heavy for God to lift.
The problem is, however, that asking for, expecting, or assuming God’s beneficent response to my current situation is, well, arrogant. Indeed, with all due humility, why should I be blessed any more than the next dude (or, hypothetically but not unfathomably speaking, the starving Nigerian child whose parent was killed by an oil fields guard)?
So when our housing “crisis” is resolved (if it ever is) and, I hope I hope I hope, we’re in a multi-acre, clean and comfy home, and I am tempted to thank God for beautifying my life, may feel smugly humbled by being proven “in” with the “in” crowd, may that be but a temptation.
I admit that part of me cringes at writing this, since maybe by saying that God doesn’t bless me I am forfeiting future fruits of fondness. If that is truly true (and some would say there’s a chance it is, and so I shouldn’t write this, just in case), then I may suffer blogger’s regret–except that if I can’t blog, then God wouldn’t have to suffer such free speech, and so maybe he/He might just send me out to the boonies, since most country living is not blessed with affordable DSL.
It sounds like a win-win situation to me!
