Sometimes you just have to accept the help on the helper's terms or you end up stuck, going no where. Frustrated and mire-laden.
Too often the gift horse isn't very attractive to us, but it's the only gift horse available. The gift horse may not be the one we were hoping for, the one we were praying for, but it can still be sufficient to get us out of the mire and back on the road where we can start moving again. Start making progress again. (Sadly, to our chagrin, we may discover that he may be,,, [Oh NO!!!] a "gift donkey"!)
Hence, the phrase, don't look a gift horse in the mouth. He may be the only one coming our way for days or weeks, months or even years to come.
i need to be thankful and appreciative for ALL things. Today's little blessing may only get me through the next few hours, but it may also be just the right step in just the right direction, just what was needed to get me one step closer to where I ultimately want to go. Thank you little ugly, uninformed, inexperienced, weak, shaggy, illogical, unorthodox, ill-prepared, but willing and available gift horse. You'll have to do, and I'll take what you're offering, however inadequate and insufficient I may think it is, nevertheless.
After all, God sent this little gift horse... Just like God sent David to take on Goliath. David was anything but what Israel expected or what they had been hoping for, praying for. Nevertheless, David, the gift horse, saved the day, saved thousands of lives on the battlefield, and saved a nation!
We should have more faith in the gift horses God sends our way in answer to our prayers for help and deliverance from the mires of life.
So, thank you little gift horses (even you "gift donkeys"). And thank God for graciously sending them my way in my hour of need.
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"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." - Isaiah 55:8-11
