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We really don’t know anything yet on the status of our van. We know it still doesn’t go. 🙂 The State Farm Insurance folks called yesterday, and said they heard of our rush, and so they will do their best… but their best is Monday. So, we wait.
Waiting is not that fun. But it’s better. If I could actually take control and get everything done, part of me would be thrilled. It’s fun to be able to accomplish things! Just yesterday, the loaner van our friends are letting us borrow had a fast turn signal indicator that indicates a burnt-out bulb. So, I pulled into NAPA Auto Parts and bought a bulb, and replaced it. I took control, solved the problem… felt good! (I must be a guy…) 🙂 But, there are probably more things in life that we can not control… where we have to wait on and trust other people – or even better (and harder?) … we have to wait on and trust God. To do more than we can ask or imagine. (Eph 3:20-21)
That’s what I am now praying for. More than I can ask or imagine.
We are going through a study right now called Experiencing God. Very cool. In today’s reading, he told a story about a time when their small church hired a pastor, but couldn’t pay his moving expense or his salary. Well, they determined to somehow give him $850/mo. They asked God to provide what they definitely could not. Within a short period of time, a church in Arkansas called and gave from their missions an $1,100 check. Out of the blue. Very cool. And then another group called and gave enough to cover one whole year of $850/mo! And that one was just as the new pastor was pulling in the driveway! They found out right then that the moving expenses they had were about $1,100!!!! Wow!
God is so much bigger than we usually let Him be. We usually relegate him to the fatal diseases and other immediate catastrophes… but we don’t let him take care of everyday things. We can do those. We should do those… it’s our responsibility. There is truth to that – God has trusted us with many things. BUT, He has not left us to do life on our own.
"And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever — the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. … But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you."
Read John 14-16
Today, I am going to think of ways that I can give God more room to be GOD in my life. One way is the van. WE can not do that one on our own. Yes we have insurance… but who knows if that is enough. We are still in debt just from the new transmission we put in the vehicle. I can not wait to see how God moves to provide so we can tell everyone how COOL he is!!! He is amazing, mighty, powerful, Provider… He is my God.