A Melted Heart...

So this morning the Lord just melted my heart....

So I’m at home...get up and then kinda plan out my day. First I’m gonna do a little work in the studio, then I’m going to go to the post office, then to Starbucks and read a little, then pick up Wally to head to work. Just one little bitty problem, I can’t find my car key.

Now here’s the deal on the key...the top part of it is broken, so i can’t actually put it on a key ring with other keys. I have to keep it separate and just keep up with it. So yes, I have had some issues with losing it, but usually I can find it very quickly, because I have certain spots where I put it, but this morning was quite the exception...

So I’m hunting for my key...cannot find it in any of the usual spots and have now circled the house several times. I’m starting to get really frustrated...yet still I look and still the key is hidden from me. I’ve now been searching for awhile...and I’ve begun to pray...”Lord PLEASE just help me find my key...”

Nothing. Except this still small voice that has begun to whisper in the back of my brain to stop looking and read the Bible for a minute.

WHAT??? How is that gonna help me find my key? So I ignore the voice...

Kept on looking for another 10 minutes and by this point I am extremely frustrated...not really at God, but kinda at Him for not helping me out...and all I keep hearing is “read the Word”. So after about the fifth time hearing Him tell me to read, I exclaim out loud “What, I’m gonna read the Bible and then You are just gonna magically make my key appear?”

So I reluctantly grab the Bible on the coffee table in the living room and sit down on the couch. I read Psalm 57...The first verse says:
“Have mercy on me oh God, have mercy! I look to you for protection. I will hide beneath the shadow of your wings until the danger passes.”

Immediately after finishing reading the Psalm...i pause to think about the whole situation and look up and what do my eyes see? My key...sitting right under where the Bible had been and where i had already looked several times.

I can’t say anything other than in that moment, i felt my heart melt. To quote a friend of mine who heard the story, the Word really is the Key!

Friend...i don’t know what to say, except that there are going to be moments when you hear that still, small voice of God and it just doesn’t make a lick of sense. But listen...just because you don’t understand doesn’t mean that God doesn’t. Just because something doesn’t make sense to you doesn’t mean that it doesn’t make sense to Him.

Trust Him. Let Him melt your heart that has been frozen by fear and doubt...He melted mine this morning, and it is an amazing feeling...