God can use a wasp.  In him, the wasp lives and moves and has its being (Acts 17:28).

Walking home from work yesterday, I was listening to the Stand to Reason Podcast. Listening to the discussion on faith versus reason made me want to drink from the fountain of God’s word. The whole way home I felt excited to get home and crack open my Bible and sit in the quiet house to read about Jesus. I then remembered I forgot my keys at work and Emily wouldn’t be home and I’d have no way to get inside to read my Bible. I prayed that somehow one of the doors would be unlocked or the window wouldn’t be latched so that I could slide it back. I get home and first try the front door. Locked. Front window? Bingo. It slid right back. Thanks, God!

Once inside, I grab something to drink and out of habit head upstairs into our computer room, and am about to push the Power On button on my laptop when appears a wasp sitting right in front of the computer. No joke. First reaction? I run out and close the door. “How’d he get in? The window’s closed. Maybe he slid it back like I did the one downstairs.” I go into the bedroom and got a shoe with a nice flat bottom. Waiting for him to land on a flat spot, I cocked the shoe. He lands, I swing, I miss, he’s angry, I close door. As I stood by the door plotting my next move, it struck me, “I was so thirsty for my Bible when I was walking, but when I get home, out of habit, I ascend the stairs and head straight for the computer. What did I need the computer for anyways? Who knows. Is this wasp a coincidence? I think not. He’s guarding my computer.”

When we rattle off that God will give us the desires of our hearts, do we include within that that he might use a wasp? Reading my Bible was (and is) the actual desire of my heart. How quickly that desire got overshadowed by lust for my computer when I got home. But God still gave me the actual, momentarily forgotten desire of my heart (reading the Bible) by keeping me from my computer with the wasp. I guess my momentary desire for my computer was actually lust. My desirings have been changed to align with the things of God. It then pleases God immensely to give me the desires of my heart because they not only please me but him.