Taken to the courts
And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19, NIV
She was being sued and we were stunned. When our daughter Libby called to say she was being sued for three million dollars by the couple she’d had a wreck with, she was in tears. “Mom, can you believe it?”
My response was calm and automatic. “What’s three million dollars to God? He owns the cattle on a thousand hills.”
I told Libby every scripture that came to mind. “God, the Creator of the universe, promises to meet all our needs. The Word says no weapon formed against us shall prosper. God hung the stars in place. He called them by name. We’re not to worry about anything, instead pray about everything.” I believed the Word. I told my daughter what I believed, and she believed me.
Libby visited her neighbor later that day. “You sure are calm about all this,” her friend said.
“What’s three million dollars to God?” Libby asked. “I’m not worried. God owns the cattle on a thousand hills. He’ll meet all my needs.”
After a few months of negotiation between insurance companies, the couple involved in the wreck settled with her insurance company for two million, nine hundred ninety-four thousand dollars shy of what they originally asked for. That’s God.
Since then, I’ve wondered.
The possibility of coming up with three million dollars was so ridiculous we had to turn it over to God. The couple could have sued our daughter for an amount I couldn’t get my thoughts around. They could have sued for thirty thousand dollars rather than three million. Would I have been able to sleep as soundly during the weeks of uncertainty? I wonder if I would have turned to worry rather than to the Word.
God, who does the impossible, also performs the possible. We don’t have to lay awake at night worrying about how God is going to meet our needs or the needs of our children unless we choose to. He has all things under control, all things planned out.
When you are weighted down, depend on God for the little worries in life and the large—after all, He owns the cattle on a thousand hills.
Jean Davis lives in Delaware with her husband Vergil. She has published devotions and inspirational stories.
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