It was a warm day in April, and Mike was working outside on a landscaping cleanup job. He was carrying a load of brush and twigs to his trailer when someone called on his cell phone. After taking the call, Mike set his phone down on the bumper of the trailer while he dumped the armload of brush into the trailer. And then you can probably guess what happened next ... he forgot to pick up his phone off the bumper.
Mike didn’t realize his mistake until he was home, and when he checked, the cell phone was gone ... it had fallen off the bumper. He realized it could have fallen off anywhere in the miles he had traveled after taking the call.
Mike needed his cell phone. Not only did he have lots of general information programmed into it, but all the business information for the lawn-care company he had just started was also programmed into that phone! And now it was gone along with all its important information!
He drove back the miles to the cleanup job, looking for his cell phone along the way, but there was no trace of it. Feeling rather discouraged, he went home again and wondered what to do next.
Boys and girls, what would you do? Well, I’ll tell you what Mike did. He knew who to turn to with this problem. Mike belongs to the Lord Jesus and loves Him, and so he prayed, asking Him to help him find his phone. “Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth” (Psalm 124:88Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth. (Psalm 124:8)).
Later that evening Mike had to go to a home improvement store for some supplies. It was a hot evening, and he had all the windows open in the van he was using. As he was driving along the country road with the wind rushing in the windows, he suddenly heard his cell phone ringing along the side of the road! Could that really be? he wondered. He pulled over and backed up to the spot to check it out. Sure enough, it was actually his phone! And something else amazing—even though it had been run over and the protective case was broken, it was still working!
Do you think the Lord Jesus heard Mike’s prayer? Yes, He certainly did!
There were so many things, naturally speaking, that could have prevented Mike from finding that phone:
1. What if he hadn’t gone down that same road again for a while and the phone battery died?
2. What if the cars running over it earlier had crushed it?
3. What if it hadn’t been a warm evening and the van windows had been closed?
4. What if the phone had been turned off?
5. What if the Lord hadn’t allowed the phone to ring at the exact moment he drove by?
But the Lord had arranged all of these details to be in place in answer to Mike’s prayer for help. Yes, the Lord does hear and answer prayer for even little things in our lives.
Boys and girls, if you know the Lord Jesus as your very own Saviour, you can ask His help for little problems too, not just the big ones. No problem is too small for the Lord Jesus.
ML-09/14/2008