Calling and Answering

"Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear." Isaiah 65:24

Yesterday was CPR training day at work, so naturally I had a dream that involved calling 911, it's just the way my mind works.

In this dream my family's house was being destroyed by crazy people cutting down trees and running into it with their cars (so strange). I was the heroic person who decided to call 911 for the terrified crew. Panic set in when I realized the noise outside was too great and I could not hear what the receiver was saying on the other line. In my dream I wasn't getting through to have help be sent and had to keep trying again and again. During one of the failed 911 attempts I heard the sound of sirens, an entire fleet of them! We realized that one of the neighbors had called for us, but to us at the time I remember thinking in my dream it seemed like we had an answer before we even called.

A couple days ago we had a notice on our door that the 'bug people' , as I affectionately call them, would be coming to spray our apartment soon. Enter massive cockroach in the apartment the next morning!! The exact people that I would have called (after the bug was securely hidden under a cup in my bathroom) had told me that they were already on their way. That's service.

On a more practical note, there are a select group of precious times that I can look back on the life of my family and see God working on our behalf before we even called out to Him. It brings amazing comfort to my future to be in intimate fellowship with my Creator! God has proven to me, not as if I deserved it, that He is actively working on my behalf.

Often, we are delivered before the "just in time" moment and we see that as something less than God's divine appointments. In times of reflection it is those moments where, only in hindsight, can I see that I was rescued from a terrible season or situation before I knew that it was a dangerous road to be traveling on.

Silly as it may be, that dream scared me. Yet, in His own way God confronted me with the reality of my own fears by the overwhelming reassurance of His presence, and not only His presence but His protection and power.

Today, we are under the care of our God who hears while we are still speaking and who knows our thoughts before they are spoken (Psalm 139:4).

Praise God from whom all blessings flow!