Stinking, Lousy Jeep

A little over a year ago I was the joyful new owner of a 1995 Jeep.  My husband owned one previously and it got totalled as the result of an accident.  With the insurance money from my husbands jeep we bought mine.  I did not buy it lightly, I prayed about it first.  I asked God to give me the perfect Jeep He wanted me to have.  We looked for the right Jeep and then we saw it online.  I knew it was the right Jeep, I prayed more and then my husband bid on it on ebay and before I knew it I was the proud owner of my green Jeep.

I should have known something was wrong with it when we were getting ready to drive it home and I could not get in the door, the handle on the passenger side did not work.  The salesman quickly fixed it and off we went to take it home.  I thanked God for my Jeep.

I took my Jeep in and had it looked over by a mechanic and they found some leakage from the axle.  It cost about $400, but it is a 95 Jeep with almost 100,000 miles on it.  Then in October the transmission went out on the Jeep, but it is a 95 Jeep with almost 100,000 miles on it.  Then came the door handles on the Jeep.  The door handles on the passenger side and the drivers side of my Jeep were broke at the same time.  So for a week, in order for me to get into my Jeep I had to open the back, climb over to the passenger side and manually open the door (I took the side panel off so I could open the latch manually), then I had to climb out the back and close it, then get in the passenger side and climb over to the drivers side. 

When both door handles were broken, I had it.  I prayed to God.  I said to God, but I prayed about this Jeep, I thought this was the Jeep you wanted me to have.  Then I felt that small still voice say, "maybe it is the Jeep I want you to have."  I laughed to myself.  My idea of perfect is far different than God's idea of perfect.  God saw a Jeep that needs work and brings problems about that will make me rely more on Him.  My husband may not like God's choice, but I am sure God is using the Jeep for him too.

So if you are disappointed in something that you prayed about and felt like it was the right choice such as a job, house, relationship and even a child and can't understand why it is not working out the way you thought it would.  Maybe it is God's perfect choice to perfect you 'in Him'.

James 1:2-4  Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.  Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.