Psalms in the Night

“…our help is in the Name of the Lord…” Psalm 124:8

The 124^th Psalm begins “if the Lord had not been on our side…” our harvest time here in India brought it to my mind. We left the village feeling the Spirit of a demolition team and a job well done – strongholds brought down and the Lord lifted up. We still had several hours to travel to arrive in Gokak. The road was hazardous and dark. Our first problem began about 20 minutes outside the village. The tire blew out. We pulled off the road and the men struggled to remove the lug nuts from the rusted rim. It took 30 minutes just for that to be taken care of. But the problem did not stop there - the tire we had to replace it with had no tread at all on the sides and the tread remaining hung by threads of treads!! Pastor P took the wheel and said, “This is very bad – we must pray.”

The passengers all began to praise and worship the King. Thanking Him for allowing us to anger the enemy to such a degree! We keep singing up and down the rutted roadway while P negotiated past pot holes and a variety of other roadside perils. We sang every song we knew (except Bobby McGee)! After the first hour A & K grew bored as I put in the iPod and sang some more – as loudly as I could (much to the embarrassment of A & K) I could only reply “this is the praise the Lord inhabits – we will make it home.”

They laughed but when we did finally arrive at the hotel and saw for ourselves the tire we had been driving on for the past two hours it was far more than obvious we had been spared from the “fowler’s snare.”