It’s so easy to get caught up in ourselves and wonder how on earth we can handle all that’s on our plate. To feel inadiquit for the job/life before us. I have been feeling that lately while working on my literacy homework. We were given a project we had to do and the data, material and instructions were not very clear (to me that is). I was so frustrated with myself and wondered how, if I can’t do this homework in English, how on earth am I going to be able to do it in a foreign language. Let’s just say the night ended with me giving up on my homework and letting my flesh get the best of me. Thank goodness I have a loving and forgiving husband.
Afterward, while Brion and I were talking, he said to me that I was in a perfect place. Knowing that what needs to be done and the work we are going into will never be accomplished without Christ working in and through us. God is so gracious to us! He LETS us be apart of HIS work in spreading the gospel.
While we were on break over the summer, I got a very, very bad rash all over my body. It itched so bad. I do not like to be itchy! Anyway it would come and go and when we were visiting Brion’s parents, it got worse. After talking to a couple nurses (in the family), praying and thinking it over, we decided to go to the doctor. Since we are living in Canada, we have travelers insurance and are not covered in the States. We thought that just maybe they might cover us, but it turns out they didn’t. We got the bill in the mail today for that visit. When I saw it I was crushed. It was a LOT of money just for a ten minute visit. But what I didn’t notice was we got something else in the mail. Someone anonymously gave us a cash gift. It was almost the exact amount of the bill!
We can stress and worry about whether or not we are making the right decision or if we are going in the right direction, but ultimately God is in control. He will provide for us every step of the way. He will provide in the way that He knows is best for us, even if it doesn’t make sense to us. All I know it that His timing is perfect, even if we question it at times. God uses whatever He needs to to point us back to him. I am so grateful for the painful and the blissful hints. We are truly a mess without Him!
“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.” ~John 15:5-8
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